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astronobob
24-09-2015, 10:59 PM
Well Well, where did this come from ?

Ok, I'll tell's ya's: somewhere in the deep black heavens this object from Galaxy street found it's way on my qhy10's chip, :P

Fortunately I was invited to drop said camera onto an 18" Newt here in the light polluted burbs of the Gold coast :)
No need to adjust balance when added the camera - huge rig :thumbsup:

Unfortunately, my PC and Progs are not well equipped atm,, and my skills are somewhat lacking as Ive turned up another B/W output image from DSStacker - ahhh for the life of it :lol:

Image stats: 3x60s, 8x270s, Temp -30, no LP Filter, no darks, flats etc !
There is a diagonal blemish noticeable @ left upper of Sculpture, most likely from the corrector which I dropped, only from a foot, pheew !

Hope it worth the squiz, if not, at least its upset the usual run a fantastic image's here :rofl:

RickS
25-09-2015, 08:20 AM
You got some nice detail, Bob.

Paul Haese
25-09-2015, 09:01 AM
That's pretty good Bob. What is it like with bigger image scale?

rustigsmed
25-09-2015, 11:40 AM
great resolution! nice work Bob!

astronobob
27-09-2015, 08:47 PM
Thanx Rick, some details I haven't imaged & seen before, a great opportunity.

Cheers Paul, not too shabby. The image scale surprised me with 1st few test captures, amazing 253 taking up the whole width of the chip.
Processing details that covered a good number of pixels instead of hiding in-between them was interesting, hard to go back to F/L under a meter, Lol !

Thanx Russell, would be amazing working this scope a few nights in dark skies, think I'm dreaming tho, Lol ...

Mighty_oz
27-09-2015, 09:35 PM
Lovely shot there :) Was the scope on an equatorial mount then ? What's the f of that scope 5 ?

Mark

astronobob
28-09-2015, 07:56 PM
Thanx Marcus, & yes an equatorial mount, a Losmandy Titan ! The scope was about F4'ish if memory serves, so F/Length near 2meters give/take ?