3-Panel mosaic in Ha light: LMC

[APO_Team]

Hi All,

We are 3 French guys ( nobody is perfect ;) ) and we have settled a remote observatory in Chile at Alain's Maury facilities in order to discover the southern hemisphere wonders !

We would like to share our results with you, and also get some inspiration as some images here are really impressive !

Our set-up is:
Tak TOA-150 refractor with Apogee Alta U16M CCD camera on a custom English cross axis mount which is convenient with long refractors !
Astrodon Ha 3nm filter
Prism software

Stop talking now, here is the image:http://www.nightpixels.net/APO/LMC/v_LMC_champ1-3_APO-Team_v2.jpg

Full image ( 23Mb) is here:
http://www.nightpixels.net/APO/LMC/LMC_champ1-3_APO-Team_v2.jpg

Cheers,

Richard

[Hans Tucker]

Well all I can say Richard is Wow, what a truly impressive result. :thumbsup: to you and your team. Not sure if this is a work in progress and you guys intended to add some colour or other narrowband data.

Oh, and welcome to IIS to you and your mates.

[Slawomir]

Awesome image Richard, thank you for sharing.

I am planning to make a mosaic of this area as well, but I will be shooting from a very light polluted area.

[Rex]

Welcome to the forum Richard, and I must say that is a stunning image mate. Do you plan to add colour as well? The detail is amazing, looking forward to seeing more from you guys.

[RickS]

Great stuff! I'm also looking forward to more :thumbsup:

[RobF]

Beautiful. A wonderful reference pic of that area for sure.
Congrats on your new observatory initiative too guys.
Prism? Hmm, must check it out.

[Stevec35]

Excellent Ha image guys! Vive la France!

Cheers

Steve

[multiweb]

Looks great. Incredible contrast and details. :thumbsup:

[marc4darkskies]

A stunning image! Wonderful detail, depth and contrast! Great work! :thumbsup:

Cheers, Marcus

[APO_Team]

Hi All,

Thank you all for your kind comments !

@Hans Tucker: yes, this mosa is in progress, we'll add some other views in Ha. Also a true LRGB mosa is in progress.

@Slawomir: if you shoot with heavy light pollution, all I can advice is to get a very narrow band filter if you can afford it and get a large number of subs.

@Rex: we still don't know if we'll add colour to his Ha data or use true LRGB image... may be a mix of both ;)

@RickS: ok I'll be happy to come back on this forum ! If you want to see more including the obseravtory set-up, please check:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Atacama-Photographic-Observatory/229224410608332?fref=ts

@RobF: Prism is an excellent software, alternative to MaximDL, CCD commander and more. I could not do anymore without it. It is written by French guy Cyril Cavadore, but there is an English version ;)
http://www.prism-astro.com/us/index.php

@Stevec35: LOL !

Thank you Multiweb and Marcus ,

Cheers from France,

Richard

[Slawomir]

Thanks for the advice Richard.

I have been using 12nm filters but just ordered a 3nm Halpha from Astrodon to test it and hopefully see a significant improvement over my current filters :-)

Looking forward to seeing your complete mosaic... :eyepop:

[Regulus]

That's stunning Richard! The detail is fascinating to look at.
Trevor

[Ric]

A wonderful image Richard

Thankyou for sharing and welcome to IIS.

Cheers

[FranckiM06]

Welcome in this forum Richard and all the rest of your team,
It is really great result at the moment. :thumbsup: I'm waiting about the OIII & SII version to see a nice colour image ;) because we can't only get the Ha version :D
Also congratulations about your nice adventure and your nice erection for this setup to Chile. I would like to get possibility to got there because I know the Southern sky when I have been in Australia and also in Caledonia and I can imagine with my TSA what I could do.
I thinking now about the TOA 150 but my mount will be too small after that :(
Franck ;)

[Ross G]

A great monochrome photo Richard.

Amazing detail!

Welcome.

Ross.