Astrofest NGC253

[peter_4059]

Just got back from a week at Astrofest this afternoon. We had a great week with clear skies each night and little or no fog.

This year I used my recently purchased Meade SN10 which I bought to battle the Duckadang dew. I was very happy with how this OTA performed including the ability to image all night without dew on the primary mirror. I was also happy with how well the scope held collimation after the car trip.

Here's one from the last two nights - 45 subs (21 x 5min L and 8 x 2 min binned RGB) using the QSI683. All processed in Pixinsight!

Here's a link to the full image:
http://astrob.in/202350/0/

[troypiggo]

Awesome mate. Stars look great from corner to corner.

I thought you wouldn't be home til tomorrow.

[ozstronomer]

Great Shot Peter, looks like the new scope is performing nicely.

[Slawomir]

Nice image Peter, it's great that your new telescope is performing well :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Another cool shot. :thumbsup: Geez, you're pumping them out. Got any sleep yet?

[Camelopardalis]

That's a beauty Peter, well done :thumbsup: heaps of detail there.

[strongmanmike]

Great result Peter, you can just make out the outer halo too. Nice to have a working rig at a star party huh? I assume we will see some more Astrofest objects?...sitting back waiting mate, bring'em on :thumbsup:

Mike

[MortonH]

Cracking image!

[RobF]

Great going Peter. Good to see the rig is living up to expectations for you.

[jjjnettie]

:) It's good to see you weren't just sleeping in your little tent.
A lovely image. :)

[rustigsmed]

nice job Peter, definitely some halo there!

Rusty

[h0ughy]

fantastic work Peter - like it a lot

[peter_4059]

Thanks for all the comments. It's a great feeling to return from Astrofest with some nice data for a change and to have imaged through the night almost every night.

I'm just about back on day shift now and I've spent a few hours playing with PI this week. I'm starting to get the hang of some basic processing steps so it's good to have a few projects to work on. This year was such a good event all round.

[Somnium]

great stuff !

[RickS]

Very nice, Peter!

[Octane]

Well done, that's beautiful. I'd add a little more contrast for the dust lanes, to pronounce them a bit more. :)

H