Exploring the LMC

[Slawomir]

Dear all,

Instead of starting to make a narrowband mosaic of the Carina as I was originally planning, I thought that exploring the LMC will be far more satisfying. So far got only about 3 hours of Ha of NGC 1763, a quick draft can be seen here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/236200/0/

As an experiment, I decided to try 5-minute subs instead of my usual 15-minute subs. I think such short narrowband subs work fine for me, and help me to avoid field rotation and also minimise effects of some tracking imperfections.

For reference, I also attached a screenshot with a single 5-minute sub and with a stack of 33 subs (both auto-stretched).

Thank you for looking
S.

[Andy01]

Nice one Slaw, a favourite of mine as well - look forward to seeing what you make of it :)

[gregbradley]

Nice shot Slaw. Looking forward to the final image myself.

Greg.

[el_draco]

Exquisite detail. Love that tendril stuff in the top right of the large image on flic.kr....

[RobF]

Looking great!

[Regulus]

That's a nice start Slawomir, and the hi res over on Flickr is a lovely photo to study.

Cheers - Trev

[Atmos]

Looking good! Fantastic what having very low read noise allows exposure time wise :)

[RickS]

A very interesting FOV, Suavi. Should be another great image :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Coming along Suavi, it's a fabulous looking neb that one, like NGC 1934.

Should be another beauty when you are done :thumbsup:

MIke

[Slawomir]

Thank you gents for your encouragement. Hopefully we will get a few clear nights so the project will have a chance of being completed.

I will need to put NGC 1934 on my imaging list :thumbsup:

EDIT: Added a bit more data: http://www.astrobin.com/full/236200/0/