Pushing Houghys cooled DSLR with the 300mm lens

[tornado33]

Howdy
Tonight I went a full hour's worth on one area. Moon is up so used narrowband imaging, 7nm Ha filter
The 300mm Flourite lens from Bert was used, @f2.8
Sensor temp 2 degrees. A single dark, flat and offset was used.
Area is near Eta Carina
4x15 minutes hand guided

Larger version here
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/cooleddeepb.jpg

The combination of the Flourite lens , cooled sensor and narrowband Baader 7Nm Ha filter makes a mockery of any moonlight present :)
Scott

[PhotonCollector]

Absolutely fantastic

[Ric]

What a beauty Scott, top stuff.

Cheers

[[1ponders]]

What a absolute pearler Scott :clap:

[h0ughy]

I will get my camera back sometime won't I????? mate what a pearler of an image!!!!!!

[Garyh]

Very nice Scott shows all that emmission stuff very well!!, that Ha filter comes in real handy on these moonlight washed nights. I like that coooled 350d too!!!

[venus]

great work Scott amazing!

[Orion]

Excellent Scott, don't give him back the camera.:whistle:

[sheeny]

Uh oh, HOughy! You shouldn't have "lent" it to him...:doh:

Excellent image! Got the right combinations of skills and equipment happening there I feel!

Al.

[jase]

Fantastic Ha image. An even more remarkable effort being hand guided. I thought hand guiding went out with film.:lol:

[Ingo]

Very nice, excellent thanks for sharing!

[Astroman]

Do you have the centred coordinates for the shot?

[Dr Nick]

Wow! Well done! ;)

[leon]

Nice one Scott, those Canon F2.8 Lens are unreal, and hand guided as well, great effort.

Leon

[rogerg]

:2thumbs:

I used to so enjoy hand guiding .... then I got lazy :(




It is amazing what can be done under full moon and under light pollution with the right combination of equipment and skills.. :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

I assume you used a 2" H alpha filter. Where can you purchase such a beast?
By the way - a really great shot

[h0ughy]

from Baader Planetarium, and its a 7 nanometre one from memory. they gave it to him, just check out their web site and you will find Scott Alder graffiti everywhere……:whistle: ;)

[avandonk]

Heres an image taken with the 5DH and 300mm F2.8L and exactly the same field. Download both and flicker between the two.
700KB
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~trlee8/Combine2fc.jpg

Bert

[RB]

If Houghy hasn't scribed his name or put a micro dot on the camera, don't give it back Scott......:P

Wonderful work mate, amazing stuff.

:eyepop:

[h0ughy]

hey i heard that:mad2:

[tornado33]

Hi all
many thanks :)
Great work Bert, its great how both shots exactly match.
The co ords are approx
11h 10m 16s
-60 15deg 21 sec
Yep its a great camera, will see what else I can do with it over the weekend :)
Yes baader gave me the unmounted 2 inch filter prototype for using some of my pics on their website :)


heres a pic of my "hi tech" imaging rig with Houghys cooled camera and the 300mm F2.8 flourite lens from Bert
Scott

[avandonk]

Scott RegiStar has a 'hidden' function where if you align two or more images you can then combine them using intersection and if you set the original image weight to say 0.0001 you then get an identical sized and oriented image of the second. This is very handy for making animated gifs and flicker seaching for changes.
Here is an example
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~trlee8/ComLovejoy.gif


Bert

[tornado33]

Thanks for that Bert. Great animation of the comet too.
Scott