Escortitis
04-09-2007, 10:42 AM
Hello All,
On Friday the 31st Aug in Perth i was testing some mods to a web-cam on a 80mm sky-watcher. The image was not taken seriously, i was more concerned about RF interference during long exposure. Any way, i stacked the images (31 fr/ 15sec) and have now got an 'artifact' that i cant identify. In the image, it appears as what i would expect a planetary nebula to look like, but i cant find it on any sky maps including google sky. The cluster is M7, and the object is NNW of the cluster center. Dec -34 deg 20 mins 28.00 sec / RA 17 hrs 54 mins 10.98 sec. I'm sorry the image is crap, the mount I'm using currently is crap (please hurry Mr Lovell) not to mention bad camera collimation and over exposure( the attached picture has been abused with editing, might put the plain stacked one on too). My astronomy / astrophotography experience is limited to about a year so I'll give this to you guys to throw around and will be very interested to hear what you guys think. I can only think that if it was aberration like the brighter stars, how come the other stars of that magnitude don't appear the same? Don't know.
Great to have somewhere to drop stuff like this.
Cheers,
George:D
On Friday the 31st Aug in Perth i was testing some mods to a web-cam on a 80mm sky-watcher. The image was not taken seriously, i was more concerned about RF interference during long exposure. Any way, i stacked the images (31 fr/ 15sec) and have now got an 'artifact' that i cant identify. In the image, it appears as what i would expect a planetary nebula to look like, but i cant find it on any sky maps including google sky. The cluster is M7, and the object is NNW of the cluster center. Dec -34 deg 20 mins 28.00 sec / RA 17 hrs 54 mins 10.98 sec. I'm sorry the image is crap, the mount I'm using currently is crap (please hurry Mr Lovell) not to mention bad camera collimation and over exposure( the attached picture has been abused with editing, might put the plain stacked one on too). My astronomy / astrophotography experience is limited to about a year so I'll give this to you guys to throw around and will be very interested to hear what you guys think. I can only think that if it was aberration like the brighter stars, how come the other stars of that magnitude don't appear the same? Don't know.
Great to have somewhere to drop stuff like this.
Cheers,
George:D