The Horsehead (!) imaged with an ETX 70!

[seeker372011]

Folks

I am rather pleased to have been able to finally (!) capture the Horsehead with an ETX 70..been trying for years:) :)

imaged last night
stack of 25 thirty second images
ETX in polar alignment on a home made wedge
Processed in photoshop
I had to shot with the camera binned 2 x 2 so its only a B and W image unfortunately and image scale is small

But I'm just chuffed to actually capture this most elusive object with my little ETX 70...a scope that costs less than a H beta filter ;)

comments and suggestions welcome

PS Did I mention I am pleased ?:)

[sheeny]

Well done!!!:eyepop: That scope's not on any performance enhancing drugs is it?

Al.

[[1ponders]]

Now that is fully (really) sic (fantastic beyond words), Narayan. :clap::clap: :bowdown:

Don't you know you are not supposed to be able to do that?????? Only "pleased"? You mean you aren't doing a quiet little dance atm :cool::D :cool::D

;)

Was that taken with the Orion or the ATiK?

[Garyh]

Good goin..perfect night to catch the horse...done it myself last night too I was too tired to go on!! .mind you shes facing the other way to yours..lol
Cheers Gary.

[ving]

ditto narayan!
well done :D

[stephenmcnelley]

Bugger me that is great, love it when people prove what a scope is capable of with skill and the right conditions.
Maybe i should buy an ETX 90 thats on offer down the road.:confuse3:

[Ric]

Top imaging Seeker, I thought I heard some yelling over the hills to the north, it must have been you annoucing it on the roof tops :rofl:

great stuff, well done.

[seeker372011]

It was the Orion Star Shoot, Paul

It really is a very snsitive camera, if only the chip was not so small :)

Narayan

[Lee]

Awesome stuff..... might give it a crack with my 80mm and DSI tonight.... :doh: jinxed it now!

[Mick]

That's just amazing!

[spearo]

well done!
I think you've captured the horsey running away!
:]
frank

[Miaplacidus]

Brilliant, unbelievable! That is amazing, Narayan. I hope you've sent that off to Weasner's ETX site. Send it to Meade, too, and they might give you a special commendation!

Cheers,

Brian.

[Omaroo]

Great work Narayan :)

Now..... should I challenge myself to get the even smaller ETX-60 to do the same? It's only 10mm aperture difference.... and a bit of skill (quite a bit)......... and patience....... and....


:help:

[astronut]

Excellent Narayan:bowdown: I spent most of my night trying to see the Horse through the 12". The sky was great and dark, but all I could see was IC434, but the horse eluded me.

[iceman]

Well done Narayan! A great image!

[stephenmcnelley]

Seeker, might you give any hints about any possible filters that were used with the ETX for that image?

:)
:whistle:

[atalas]

Nice work Narayan....and with a broken ETX as well .

[seeker372011]

The only filters I used were the usual -an IR filter and a minus Violet filter.

This is after all a short tube achromat so the stra bloat without these filters can be severe

so the total system onsisted of an out- of-the box ETX 70 on a home made wedge with these two filters and an Orion Starshoot DeepSpace Imager-from a Western Sydney-read light polluted backyard

[seeker372011]

fingers crossed maybe it ain't broken after all

[seeker372011]

John Graham over at Cloudy Nights has done some really good work with an ETX 60

Must get it equitorially mounted though. I use a home made wooden wedge. John Graham uses an old EQ mount that he modified for his ETX 60

give it a go :)

[seeker372011]

Thanks for the nice feedback guys and for sharing my excitement

as an image I know its ordinary..but it was produced with a scope supposedly incapable of astrophotography according to its manufacturer -so to capture an object that i was visually unabe to see in a 20 inch equipped with a H beta filter from Wiruna -well that gives me a buzz :)

I

[stephenmcnelley]

Hey thats why we all love that image, you were pushing the boundaries in many ways and came out with something remarkable!

[seeker372011]

Thanks Brian

I did send it to Mike and he has posted it on the ETX site

narayan