Eightburst Planatary NGC 3132

[tornado33]

Hi
Tonight I got this image
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp/ngc3132eightburstsmall.jpg
A 5 and 10 minute ISO 200 image stacked. EOS 300D and 10 inch F5.6, off axis manually guided. This is a full resoloution crop from the original much larger image. No dark subtraction done.

[ballaratdragons]

Tornado,

Here is a further cropped version of your pic so we can all see it.

Well done!!!!!!!!

[tornado33]

Thanks for that, yes I should have cropped it down like that :)

[atalas]

Good work tornado33 ! keep them coming.


Louie:cool2:

[gbeal]

Nice shot Tornado, and manually guided for 15 minutes as well, you must be keen. Why not autoguide?
Gary

[iceman]

There's some really nice detail in that shot, well done!

[tornado33]

Thanks people.
I cant autoguide as the cost to set it all up would be beyond me. My mount has no motorised Dec, so I make Dec adjustments by hand. The RA drive on the mount has a old 240v Synchronous motor, I use a simple RA Drive corrector that varies the speed of the motor by varying the frequency above or below 50 Hz. Theres no input for autoguiding in the Corrector. I'd love the idia of starting exposures then leaving the scope unattended, but there is too many things to do to set that up with my rig :(

[h0ughy]

great shot that. The more obscure the better Eh Scott!

[ving]

wow!
well done under the circumstances!! :)