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[dvj]

Another 305 Honders shot.

http://www.astrobin.com/full/119409/0/

[RickS]

Whoa! That's a very detailed view.

[Peter Ward]

Reminds me of a fine B&W art print.

Delightful :thumbsup:

[pluto]

:eyepop: That's amazing!

[pvelez]

Excellent shot

Pete

[strongmanmike]

Raaaather nice that :)

Mike

[Paul Haese]

Nice John. I really like the entire composition. I don't think I have ever seen that dust to the right of the main nebula, nor the cloud below it either.

[gregbradley]

Superb John.

Greg.

[LewisM]

Spectacular.

Roland sure perfected the reflector... after he perfected the refractor :D Seem to perform a LOT better than the competition.

[marc4darkskies]

Knockin' it out of the park there John!! :thumbsup:

Cheers, Marcus

[Octane]

Unbelievable.

Between this, and Martin's narrowband he released today, talk about heaven!

H

[LewisM]

http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.a u/images/Elephant_Trunk-Final.jpg - oooooooooooooooooooh yeah!!!!

[dvj]

That Martin! Yes, California does have some excellent seeing. I'm afraid that my city location is compromising what the Honders can really do. I might go to a smaller pixel camera to eek out a bit more resolution.

[dvj]

Lewis, that's why I call the Honders "The all reflecting refractor":D

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[dvj]

Thank you all for the kind comments. I resisted putting in those starry spikes. ;)

[LewisM]

I swear if I EVER win the lottery, I will put my name on the AP RH list. Just hope I wouldn't croak before my name came up :)

Or the Tak CCA-250...

To me though, the most unbelievable shot, 7.5 hours with this RH of yours John: http://www.astrobin.com/full/70341/0/ - that's like mega MEGA data through most telescopes :) :P

[Ric]

WooHoo

That's a ripper.

Top stuff John. :thumbsup:

[alpal]

That picture is so tack sharp across the entire frame.

I am now convinced of the value of premium optics.

[dvj]

Thank you! At f/3.8, orthogonality of all the components help with this. I've replaced the original drawtube with an FLI Atlas digital focuser and the STL camera was factory shimmed a long time ago to improve the array flatness. This goes a long way for sharp stars across the field. What I thought originally was a bit of tilt, I'm actually experiencing a bit of differential flexure with my separate guidescope. Perfectly round stars when I use the internal STL guider. The problem is that the old STL guider is behind the filters! So, time for an upgrade.

Roland did it right on this one. Why the last scope sold for nearly $28K USD.

[dvj]

Thank you!

[Suzy]

Hi John, that is such a gorgeous image, wow, there is so much glorious detail!

I've popped it on our facebook page just now and I also did an informative write up to accompany it with. Thanks. :)

I love coming here and seeing gorgeous pics & when I see something unusual, I go off on a tangent finding information about them. Got to love astronomy- always something new to learn. :)

[dvj]

Hi Suzy, thank you, that's very nice of you to do that. Do you have a link to the facebook page?

jg

[marco]

Excellent image John with exquisite details, as standard from you. But being this one a northern hemisphere I get you moved out your OTA from Coona, have you? If so it is a pity we will not see more of those fantastic Ha southern sky portrait, at least for a while.. :rolleyes:

Clear skies
Marco

[dvj]

Thanks Marco. Well no. Our satellite dish went down about 30 days ago, so I have no internet connection to the Oz remote observatory this month or maybe next until it gets resolved.

jg

[alpal]

You've done well & it shows in the results.

[Ross G]

What an amazing photo John.

Incredible detail and so sharp!

Ross.

[dvj]

Thank you Ross. It's a great scope. No sharpening or decon needed with the Honders. Well, at least for me, I have not found the need to apply that level of processing.

j

[sjastro]

Very sharp image John.

Steven

[Stevec35]

Very very nice John as usual with this instrument.

Cheers

Steve