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Elio
12-03-2015, 10:51 AM
Hi guys!
at first I apologize for missing here so long... job and family and "clouds" kept me away from astroimaging for a while, though I usually pass here for a quick look and found a lot of beautiful images.

Here a result that makes me proudly, a "live joint imaging" session taken last year with my friends Alessandro Falesiedi and Mario Lovrencie, using our 3 scopes:

• Alessandro F. : C11HD@f7,2 con Takahashi Reducer + Avalon M1
• Mario L.: Newton selfmade 10 f4 + mpcc + AZ eq6
• Elio : RC + GSO reducer 0.7 + canon 60d cooled + Avalon M1
total exp. time L: 13h – RGB: 7h

Abell 2151 is the code name of this spectacular cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Hercules whose light took around 500 million years to reach us : the time "emerged land" still floating on fluid magma on our planet , about 250 million years before the dinosaurs!

It 'a fascinating area of ​​the cosmos filled of galaxies which interact with each other in collisions, mergers, or gravitational distortions where we can clearly distinguish the galaxies with high star formation hued blue to those with older populations dominated by yellow, a huge stellar "neighborhood" which extends for about 2/3 million light-years!

With overall integration has been reached galactic mag around the 21, and able to highlight a particular object, so much the name Quasar (almost stellar radio source) the core of an active galaxy, cataloged as QSO J1605 + 1745 with a redshift of z = 2.99 which leads to a calculated distance of between 7 and 10 billion light years, almost to the origins of our Universe !!!

Take a look on my website (http://fotodistelle.it/dso/ammasso-galassie-ercole-abell2151/), there's a comparison made with the unreachable image taken by Ken Krawford, just for joke...or not! :eyepop:

Thanks for looking and feel free for comment, you are always :welcome:

Cheers
Elio

http://fotodistelle.it/wp-content/uploads/astrofotogrfia-Abell-2151.jpg

http://fotodistelle.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new_image1_Annotated_Mario_Mag.jpg

jsmoraes
12-03-2015, 11:30 AM
Very nice work and image. Very interesting comparison with Crawford. Impressive area, with many interaction between galaxies.
Congratulations ! :thumbsup:

Placidus
12-03-2015, 12:20 PM
Truly stunning. Inspiring.

How wide is your field of view?

Best,
Mike

Elio
14-03-2015, 02:38 AM
Thanks for appreciation JS, proud you like!
I agree that's an impressive area, even though I believe is happening a true disaster out there :lol:

Thanks again,
Elio

Elio
14-03-2015, 02:46 AM
Proud to be an inspiration for you, Mike! RC8 used in this image with GSO 0.8xF/R was about 60'x40' with a 70% of (nearly) flat field, now I work with AP CCD67 at f5.3 and around 70'x50' with 95% of good field.
Thank you ;)

Cheers,
Elio

tilbrook@rbe.ne
15-03-2015, 01:32 PM
Superb work Elio!!

Detail processing and colour just stunning.
Where do you image from?

Cheers,

Justin.

Ross G
17-03-2015, 05:39 PM
A great looking photo Elio.

Love the composition and detail.

Ross.

Elio
18-03-2015, 08:28 AM
Hi Justin, thanks for appreciating our efforts :thumbsup:

We were guests of M. Rufeno Observatory, on Appennini mounts, about 750 mt... have a look here:

Osservatorio Monte Rufeno (http://www.nuovapegasus.it/)

;)

cheers,
Elio

Elio
18-03-2015, 08:30 AM
Thank you too Ross :thumbsup:

IanP
18-03-2015, 02:07 PM
An inspiring photo, Elio :thumbsup:

Superb colour, composition & detail :D

gregbradley
18-03-2015, 02:18 PM
That's amazing. You did that with a cooled DSLR? Get out of town!

Terrific work. Is that a 10inch GSO RC?

Greg.

RickS
18-03-2015, 02:21 PM
I missed this one somehow, Elio. Very well done!

strongmanmike
18-03-2015, 02:50 PM
Yeah I missed this one too Elio :shrug: ...great galaxy cluster image :thumbsup:

Lovely mix of morphologies there...an amazing universe.

Mike

DJT
19-03-2015, 01:51 AM
Oh wow, thats a great image. Galaxies galore.:thumbsup:

multiweb
19-03-2015, 08:54 AM
That's one superb shot Elio. Really cool. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Somnium
19-03-2015, 02:34 PM
that is just simply spectacular, well done !

Elio
25-03-2015, 05:19 AM
I wrote for half an hour and replied directly to everyone, but browser has lost all stuff when I clicked send, I think I wasn't logged in... :mad2:

anyway...thank to all of you guys, your words make me happy and proud with this "team" result and posting here is always a honour! :thanx:

@Greg
RC is a 8" with my beloved Astro60Da for the colors, luminance was taken by Mario and Alessandro with their setups as stated in the first post :thumbsup:
you can see it here http://www.astrobin.com/110255/ when was ready to shoot at Abell 2151 ;)

Paul Haese
25-03-2015, 01:40 PM
An interesting field of view Elio. So many really interesting looking galaxies in the field.

Elio
10-04-2015, 09:59 PM
Thank you too Paul!

it has been published on Amateur Astrophotography Ezine Issue 15 (http://astrophotomag.com/issue15/#/26)

with our happiness :thanx: