Yet another horsehead

[astroboy]

Hi all
Despite having wind last night that nearly blew the mortgage off the house , got a decent image of the HH , good reason for having a dome I guess.

10" F3.5 , ST2000 , 2hours 6nm Ha and one hour total for the RGB

Zane

[Garyh]

Hi Zane,
Thats a fantasic image...:eyepop: Well worth sitting up in the wind!!
Cheers Gary

[Adrian-H]

very nice, lots of fine neb detail around the horsehead

[RB]

OMGosh that's excellent Zane.
Great detail.
The clouds and silhouette are just beautiful.

Andrew.

[seeker372011]

nice work Zane, what did you do with zeta orionis ;)

[astroboy]

Thanks everyone
Don't know where Zeta went but I hope it doesn't come back in a hurry makes it tuff to image with wider field gear.
Gary , fortunately I have the gear permanently set up and with out the dome I would have stayed in bed and thought of something better to do;) .
Heres a couple of pics of the money pit to get the idea.

Zane

[Lee]

Simply awesome..... can you post a full res version somewhere by any chance??

[astroboy]

Hi Lee
Thanks for the comment , unfortunately I havent got the brains to update my own website , hmmm , should change my name to Astro Thickie:P

zane

[beren]

Top image, great to see the summer treasures coming back and awesome observatory set up i can only dream of something like that:P

[TidaLpHasE]

:eyepop:What an awsome image, world class quality there.

I love all the detail behind the head, making it stand out so much.

Thanks for showing this one Zane, it's a beauty:thumbsup:

[tornado33]

Excellent work, can start to see the curtain like vertical striations in the red nebula. Only ever see that in very deep images
Scott

[Ric]

Great stuff Zane, love the image and the colours.
It's still on the wrong side of the house for me to image, I'll have to wait a bit longer.

Great work

[richardo]

Hi Zane ,
I thought it might be you.....
I remember quite a while back before ccd's entered the amateur arena and you were taking some of the loveliest, delicate images with emoltion that were shown in Sky and Space and any other mag at the time for that matter.
Now your doing some excellent images with CCD's.

This image is very well blended with the Ha to the rgb's, very rich and showing the reef's vertical streamers.
You must have had a late one to capture this summer time object ,good Zeta and Al didn't look like it gave you too much grief!

Very nicely done indeed.
Is the F3.5 a home built scope??

Cheers for now
Rich

[richardo]

Ahh, now I had a close look at your pic, I see it was a Meade SN10".
You obviously used the Keller corrector to acheive this FL.
The Moonlite focuser would be a very good upgrade for this system as well i'd say.
Good to see what this scope can do.

Cheers
Rich

[spearo]

Very nice image! Simply stunning
And the DOME...WHAT a great way to spend your $
I'm envious
frank

[astroboy]

Thanks Rich
Its taken a long time to get my head around CCD , im a bit of a luddite really and used to be at home in the darkroom but have had to move on to CCD for the incredible andvantages it brings.
As they say you either ride the steamroller of change or become part of the road.
I feel like it is a home built scope after all the mods.
The corrector is actualy a Borg 50mm F10 APO which are unavailable now and I've moved the moonlite CR2 to the 24" and replaced it with a motorized moonlite which is great.
The next mod maybe to move the the schmidt corrector 400mm to give a 35mm corrected field , could be a bit snug in the dome though , the currant set up is fine for typical DSLR.
Good luck with you 10" , imaging at around the 1000mm FL seems to be ideal for me and I hope you will be happy with it to.

Zane

[Striker]

Awesome image Zane,

Probably the best I have seen on this forum.

Well done

[strongmanmike]

Wow Zane how did I miss this one???

It's a very well imaged object, particularly by our northern friends but it is always a great object to look at when imaged well, like you have here! :thumbsup:

There appears to be a bright bar or line of nebulosity running across the curtain of nebulosity above the head..? I think this may be an artifact of your processing, what do you think? Never seen this before..?

Mike

[astroboy]

Thanks for the input everyone
and Mike I'm not sure what the bar is I may have discovered something totaly new , after all back in my days with the Schmidt Camera I discovered Dark Mater which is apparently fluff and dust made by the guy puting the film into the scope , do I get any credit....no , life is so cruel :sadeyes:

Zane

[acropolite]

Breathtaking image Zane, looks like one could almost reach out and touch it.:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

Ummm, WOW!! One day, One day i might get an image 10% of this one . What a stunner!

[Octane]

Zane,

That is simply incredible.

That red is just overwhelming, and the definition -- wow!

Regards,
Humayun

[Lester]

Fabulous image, well done Zane.

[ballaratdragons]

Hi Zane,

May I ask your permission to print your pic and put your name on it. I would really like to frame it and hang it in our SVAA clubroom along side Berts widefields.

Pic: Berts widefields on display at SVAA Clubroom (printed on Photopaper at Harvey Norman)

[atalas]

Top shot Zane ! well done.

[spearo]

That'a awsome, very wll done!
frank

[spacezebra]

I just got to this thread - Beautiful image

Cheers Petra