NGC1532 through M&T's finderscope...

[cometcatcher]

To be honest I wasn't even going to try with my little setup, but curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought him back. ;-) It's absolutely nowhere near M&T's awesome image http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=150977 but I am really thrilled to pick up some of the tidal force interaction between NGC1532 and NGC1531. I didn't think I had a hope, but you don't know until you try. Stayed up all night with match sticks under my eyelids to capture just over 5 hours worth of data.

GSO 10" F4 Newtonian, 419 x 45 seconds on a HEQ5 Pro unguided, Pentax K-5.

[Placidus]

Kevin, that's 5 hours and two matchsticks very well spent! It's got depth, well processed and great colour. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Thanks M&T!

Bonus! Ron informs me that we have captured Supernova 2016iae!

[RickS]

Nice work, Kevin!

[strongmanmike]

That's a solid image Kevin, and bloody excellent for a finderscope! :eyepop:

Mike :P
Cool about the SN too

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Rick!



Thanks Mike. I would have missed the thing if it wasn't for Ron spotting it on my Facebook post. Lucky he checked!

[Placidus]

And congratulations on capturing the supernova, and so clearly and unambiguously. Discovered by ATLAS using a half metre scope on 12th November. Almost brand new. I was ridiculously excited even though you told me about it, and someone else found out about it, and someone again discovered it two weeks earlier.

Mike

[astroron]

Nice image Kevin,Love the bridge between 1531 and 1532, and of course
who could forget the Supernova 2016iae;)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Cheers Ron!

I was excited also M&T! Maybe one day we will discover our own SN. (If you haven't already)

[alpal]

Hi Kevin,
that's great news to have captured the supernova.
It seems that Mike & Trish have captured it too.
I don't see it on CHART 32 - a much older picture:
http://chart32.de/images/objects/galaxies/NGC1532/NGC1532_HaLRGBc80.jpg

cheers
Allan

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Allan. Looks like it's been around for a few days. The last SN recorded there was in 1981 I think.

[SimmoW]

That has to win the 'best image title of 2016' award! Very funny. And still a great image

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Simon. :)

[Atmos]

Very nice!! :thumbsup: all round ;)

[Slawomir]

I like it Kevin :thumbsup:

BTW, if your nice 10" scope would classify as a finderscope, then my 4" doublet would be....an eyepiece? :lol:

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Colin!



Hehheh, it's all relative I suppose. I do love my ED100, but it seems a bit slow compared to the 10" at F4. I'd like something with longer focal length for these galaxies, but I don't think DSLR's like F9+ very much.

[DJT]

Nice one Kevin and how jammy is that, getting the SN!

I used to have great fun with the ED100 and a DSLR. Stick the SW flattener reducer on it and you get down to something a bit more manageable (I think it was around 7.8 or so) then just stick it out and get as much data as you can.

[cometcatcher]

Thanks David. I also have an Orion reducer / flattener, I think it gets the F9 ED100 down a bit further than the SW one. I think F 7.2? Not bad really at that and the stars are still so small and sharp. I got my only APOD with that setup on a comet as I couldn't fit the big newt out the window lol.