The Black Beast of Argh

[Andy01]

As a Monty Python fan, I can't un see the beast from the Holy Grail movie here amongst the crazy mix of pockmarked bubbles & gases in the Small Magellenic Cloud!

It is of course NGC 292 & friends, in Ha & O3, shot under a full moon while testing my ridiculously expensive new Tak TOA-35 0.7 reducer, which finally arrived from Japan, after 3-4 months patiently waiting. :D

I'll have another go at this when the moon wanes and I get my focuser issues sorted out.

When I screwed on the new reducer I couldn't bring it to focus with my Tak CAA/rotator in place, so I'm having a shorter end cap adapter made by to suit by Stefan Buda.

The stars are almost round in all the corners first time out too, so a small spacing tweak to fine tune that, and I'll finally have the perfect dream scope I thought I was purchasing a year ago! :lol:

Only 5 hrs data, but here it is on ASTROBIN (https://www.astrobin.com/jtmugx/) anyway. :D

[Retrograde]

Mony Python reference - love it. :thumbsup:
Regions of nebulosity seem to be like cosmic Rorschach tests. :lol:

Very nice image too of course!

[strongmanmike]

Nice rather corpuscular shot Andy :thumbsup:

Assuming you haven't altered it and from the full res version on AB, the amount of star distortion visible across the image is pretty minimal :confuse3: :shrug:...I recon that amount could just be a function of the angle of the camera and a little flex and could change again depending on where you are pointing in the sky..?

Mike

[matlud]

Very nice Andy. The reducer is looking good especially for a first outing 👍

[Andy01]

Thanks Pete, as a parent of three now teen lads, it's a joy to hear them quoting Monty Python now - "No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" or 'Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam..." :lol: Must rewatch The Holy Grail next family movie night - just have to FF Sir Lancelot's encounter with the naughty bits ;)



Corpuscular, love it! :lol:

It's not quite the full field there Mike, I slightly rotated the focusser between filters, so had to crop off the corners on the repro - but there was a teeny bit of distortion that less spacing should clear up.



Thanks Matthew, I reached out first to a few users in the USA who gave it the thumbs up prior to shelling out the big bucks. You could buy a very decent small scope for what this thing set me back! :eyepop:

[Peter Ward]

I rather like that

Reminds me of a bunch of Shiraz grapes ready for the current vintage...

[DarkArts]

... or a cluster of bomb craters and debris. But maybe that's just the line of work I'm in.

Fantastic image! :thumbsup:

[Andy01]

Thanks Peter, Don't mind a nice drop of McLaren Vale either. :lol:



Er thanks DarkArts! :scared3: :lol:

[gregbradley]

That turned out very well. Nicely processed.

Greg.

[Startrek]

Andy,
Lovely image of a very unusual and interesting object
Never come across this one before
Looks more like 2 dogs out of Paw Patrol a kids TV show some of my grandkids watch
Well captured and processed !!
Cheers
Martin

[markas]

Very nice image. I like the colour balance:thumbsup::thumbsup: (A little more restrained than usual?:D)

Mark

[Andy01]

Thanks Greg, surprised myself considering the limited data set. :)



Ha ha, cheers Martin, at least it's not the teletubbies! :lol:
Good to see Pareidolia rocks IIS once more! :D




lol,:lol::lol::lol: cheers Mark - can't do a lot with only two filters, best stay tuned for a full Andyfied NB version to follow once my focuser/OTA/Reducer issues are sorted! :D