Giblets

[LewisM]

I felt like chicken last night, so I did.

Really good seeing until about 11pm when thin high level stuff started appearing in the moonlight - oh that damned Moon! Brighter than the sun shining out of ...yeah, there. Had to give it a go anyway.

14 x 600sec OSC STF-8300 shots (scope: FSQ-85EDX "Baby Q"), with an Optolong 48mm CLS filter and Baader UV/IR. Seemed to do a pretty reasonable job handling the buzzillion candlewatts of farking LED street lighting, airport/runway/HIAL lighting and a 3/4 Luna. Then the upper level thin vapour, then the dew running off everywhere (this is why I hard-wax my scopes - dew RUNS off) then solid cottonwool fluffy cloud. Packing up saw dew everywhere, with me breathing steam...not even Autumn YET Canberra lol.

So, it is what it is - I included the shots through the thin vapour clouds, so this may account for a little "haze", as well as that damned big reflective rock in the sky. Only the brave (or moronic) shoot OSC with a Moon :rofl:

Fulls size, warts n all: https://www.astrobin.com/full/335630/0/?nc=LewisM&real=&mod=

Also, here's the Bok Bok Bok Bok Bok Bokerk...errr. Bok Globules (Giblets) and that lovely little PN that few ever image, plus a web site friendly rendition

Enjoy the contrast destroying moon glow :)

[willik]

I like the colour contrast and the colour of the stars looks good the refractor does its part top refractor.
Martin

[strongmanmike]

Agree with Willik...but the best part of your image posts...is the post itself, usually causes at least a smile :)....and sometimes a :rofl:....although occassionally a :rolleyes:...oh and the odd :scared:

:P

Mike

[LewisM]

Ta (or is that tar and feather?).

I did Fox Fur too last night but it looks like someone shot the Fox with a shotgun...so throwing that one away! Doofus forgot to bake the desiccant plug (frosting last time out) and do new flats with the new filter arrangement (look, no reflections!) so it has motes bigger than Donald Trump’s intellect. A gorgeous region though.

[Ryderscope]

Good one Lewis. A nice field and agree on the OTA. The're a great little scope. I admire what you achieve given the conditions.

[Lognic04]

Nice!

[LewisM]

Thanks one and all.

I have had LOTS of Takahashis - LOTS! The FSQ-85 and I have always had a niche with each other, so I had to have another (had 2 prior). It is a SWEET scope - I prefer it to her big sister the 106 personally (no particular reason). Just takes longer gathering the faint fuzzies. This one has a VERY small diffraction spike, so will need to investigate and mitigate (I think one of the foil lens spacers, which means I make a knife edge baffle just lightly larger than the objective diameter to hide it).

Now I wonder, without going into an astrometric site, is the "PN" I single out actually a PN or just an outlier of the other H-a ejecta in the area? I think I need to invest in a 7nm H-a filter and find out if it is separate or not.

[Lognic04]

The FSQ85 looks like a great scope! Sharp stars all around! Wish i had one :D

[LewisM]

Wish I had an MT-160, but NOT gonna trade :lol:

You should see the stars when there is NOT thin cloud...

[Lognic04]

Aww man! :D

[LewisM]

Ran a slight P.I Richardson-Lucy decon (to sharpen the image I showed after the Atrous Wavelet denoise), and ... hmmmm

I know Mikey is terrified of decon (or is that deacons?) but here it is with sharper and more contrasty giblets and jets...

[strongmanmike]

:scared2:....:rundog:

[LewisM]

Running TO or FROM Mike? :P