Taking the Modified Toucam even Deeper

[ballaratdragons]

Hi all,

I spent last night (7 April 2007) pushing the limits even further with the Modified Toucam!

Considering the Moon was washing out DSO's and the seeing was garbage, I still managed to get some Galaxies Groups!!! Deepest I've been!!!!!!!!!! :)

I will post the 3 Galaxy Groups here and see if anyone can mark on them which
Galaxies they are. I will post the answers to the ones I know later.

I know which ones they are, but I can see even more galaxies in the pics than are shown on Cartes du Ciel. Be good if someone named them all for me. :thumbsup:

Here they are. Modified Toucam DEEP!

[RB]

Now that's deep ! :eyepop:
You're lucky you could find your way back home .......:scared:

Awesome work Ken.

:thumbsup:

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks Andrew.

Pity I had to cut the brightness back so far, but they were almost washed out with light. They are very long exposures and collected every bit of Moonlight available :(

Anyone recognise any of them yet?

[Rob_K]

First pic?

[Rob_K]

Third pic? Two galaxies I don't know.

[ballaratdragons]

YAAAYY Rob :cool:

You got two images correct. There are others in there too.
Pics below show them.

One to go folks!!!

[iceman]

Well done Ken, great stuff.

[Phil]

great work there Ken it amazes me how deep you have got with a toacan.
Phil

[Ric]

Amazing Ken, you are really getting some amazing images from that little camera.

Top stuff

[Rob_K]

Last one Ken. Next time don't put "87" in the file name!! Lots more in there, but this is all I have....

Cheers -

[ballaratdragons]

WOOO-HOOOO!!!

Onya Rob, you got all 3!

Comapare yours to mine below, a fraction different.





I had to give some sort of hint ;)

Yep, probably lots more Galaxies, but none of the very faint ones are mapped!

[ballaratdragons]

To add another Galaxy Cluster to the melting pot, here is a recent image I took that Bert asked me to send him so he could get rid of the Amp Glow. After Bert had removed the Amp Glow there are even more than I originally thought!!!!!

The Cluster is in Doradus. Captured with the Modded Toucam again.

[ballaratdragons]

Here they are marked:

[ballaratdragons]

Rob K will probably come along and name them all :lol:

[iceman]

What a great FOV! Well done Ken and Bert!

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks Mike.

It is through the ED80 with a 0.5x Focal Reducer. The Toucam is equal to a 6mm EP, so the FOV should be the same as using a 12mm EP. :thumbsup:

I was suprised that I captured so many Galaxies!!!

[ving]

i am not suprised at all, you sir have tallent! :)

[ballaratdragons]

The scope, mount and camera do the work, Vingo. I just push the buttons :lol:

[ving]

you are far too humble ken! :)

top work mate :)

[Dr Nick]

That was done with a webcam!!!
Bravo! ;)

[atalas]

Ken,lots of wonderful web cam shots dude ! some nice deep shots achieved which is a great effort !who ever said size matters?

[avandonk]

Ken is a self made man so we are not responsible. All we can do is help him get over the toUcam obsession by getting him a BIGGER camera. I am working on it.

Bert

[ballaratdragons]

:eyepop:

[ballaratdragons]

I have just run the Doradus Galaxy Cluster through 'Neat Image' to remove the noise. I hope you like it :)

[ballaratdragons]

and a slightly larger version :thumbsup:

Enlarge and look at all the faint stuff in the background :eyepop:

[ving]

i have never seen so many fuzzy blobs!

[ballaratdragons]

The more I zoom in with the Firefox Zoom function the more I find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have Firefox, just right click on the enlarged image and use 'View with Zoomfox' and use the Mouse wheel to zoom waaaayyyy in.

Good Grief, hard to believe the Toucam found all this stuff!