Ngc4945

[atalas]

OK heres one Guys, taken through the FS102 with ST7 at f/8 120sec x 3 in
Track&Accumulate mode last night .

Louie :P

[westsky]

Beautifull Louie, now do it in colour :-))

David.

[Mick]

Wow beautiful photo Louie. Galaxy Magnitude: 8.60.

[[1ponders]]

Very Nice Louie. Beautiful capture :2thumbs:

[atalas]

Thanks Mick ,the light polution in Bankstown really sucks! being new to imageing I found out very quickly that theres a huge learnig curve and you realy dont know anything about mounts till you have to stick a camera on them,but you know, you still have little bits of joy when something half decent comes up on screen!

Louie:cloudy:

[Mick]

You're doing just fine; I wish I could take images like that Louie. I’m a fan of B&W very classic look. :)

[atalas]

Man that was weird, I was just replying to Mick and up popped David and Paul ! thanks guys, Ive bought aCFW6 filter wheel from Gary Beal
so hopefully colour wont be far behind! If I ever work out how to use it!:rofl:

Louie

[Rodstar]

:einstein:

You are a lot cleverer than me Louie, lovely shot.


Rodstar

[rumples riot]

Very nice Louie, love to see galaxies.

[atalas]

Now come on Rod older dosent mean smarter !doesent even mean wiser !:rofl:
Rodstar ! It was great meeting you on saturday looking forward to the next one!

:cheers:

Louie

[Rodstar]

Sorry to hear about the water problem with your scope Louie, by the way. Sounds like you have some leads now to sort it out, though.

Where do you go for dark skies out your way?

Rodstar

[atalas]

Hi Paul ,I love galaxies too ! maybe the fact that there so far away and so big and we see them at all " Man Im starting to hang out for a big telescope again !:help2: :help2: :help2: :help2: :help2:

Louie

[iceman]

That's awesome Louie! You're a natural!

[atalas]

Dark skies at Magellan Observatory " host Zane Hammond" great guy and dark skies ! out at Lake Bathurst 30km out of Goulburn he has a NGT 18 set up in a Dome Observatory . 12"LX200 ,an a tone of other stuff for imageing . Google his site .

Louie:cheers:

[Rodstar]

Do you stay over for the night? What's the accomodation like? Somewhere a group of Iceinspacers could link up at for a night of viewing, then crash?

I'm always thinking ahead....

Rod

[atalas]

Thats a great idea ! you stay at a farm house full amenities ! prices are great " 85.00 for two people per night 15.00 for each extra person then free for the extra people after that ! so It wont cost much at all if theres a few of us going down . just bring food for the barbecue !
You would have a ball.

Louie:rockband: :party:

[beren]

:) wow great image ......more inspiration

[atalas]

Hello IceMan "oh shucks "thanks sir!

Louie :P

[Rodstar]

Maybe on the other side of winter we could make some plans...meet up on the Saturday, a bit of socialising, and a bit of serious work on the scopes? I'd be keen. Might even drag the family along.

Rodstar

[atalas]

They would love it Rod ,count me in !

Louie:cheers:

[Greg Bryant]

Louie,

Your image of NGC 4945 shows something special - a 14th magnitude supernova shining in that galaxy.

Here's a link to an image showing where the supernova is.

http://www.supernovae.net/sn2005/n4945s1.jpg

It's in the lower right corner of the link image (the upper right end of your galaxy image).

This supernova, SN 2005af, was one of two I visually observed last month at the South Pacific Star Party - that was a first for me, to see two in one weekend.

[atalas]

Thanks for the info Greg that was cool !

Louie:cool2:

[beren]

Ah man how goods that , well done Louie what a highlight