Yeah, I'm still bashing the Toucam!

[ballaratdragons]

When you have 9.5/10 seeing and 10/10 Transparency, ya run with what ya know!

So in went the Modded Toucam, and I had a blast. :lol:

Here is tonights effort :)

Cloud rolled in at 1am and wouldn't allow me to get any more than 3 frames of Flame Neb (1st time I've imaged it).

1. 47Tuc
2. Flame nebula
3. NGC253
4. Orion Nebula

[iceman]

Nice work Ken. Seeing and transparency were good here last night too.. I can see lots of images being posted from all over, in the next few days.

[Dennis]

Hi Ken

Wow – impressive portraits of some of the finest sights in our skies; especially good for the lowly ToUcam. You’re an accomplished master at squeezing every last photon out of it!

Cheers

Dennis

[Alchemy]

seems like you all stayed up last night, good work ken.
i looked at the moon just after sunset with the idea of a bit of webcamming and it was just boiling and jumping last night, so i just didnt bother, and now i read 10/10 and 9.5 GEEEEZZZZZZ not fair!

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks guys,

Yep it was a fantastic sky!!!!

Imaging info for the pics above (now that I have had a sleep):

47Tuc - 1x20 seconds, 1x30 seconds, 1x40 seconds, 1x50 seconds, 1x70 seconds, 1x80 seconds, 1x90 seconds. Taken into easyHDR and layered for High Dynamic Range, then PhotoShop for cropping.

Flame Nebula - 3x90 seconds, Reggie 3, Photoshop for contrast and cropping.

NGC253 - 20x160 seconds, Reggie 3, Photoshop for processing then cropping (Moon Glow very evident).

M42 - 10x120 seconds, Reggie 3, Photoshop for cropping.

To counteract the massive Amp Glow problem I have, all images were framed in the lower right hand corner of the chip, then cropped in Photoshop. Moon Glow made the task even harder.

All - Saxon ED80, Modified Toucam 840k Pro II, 0.6x FR, Astronomiks IR/UV filter, Saxon 120mm f5 Guidescope, Unmodified Toucam Guide Camera with 0.6x FR, Guidemaster Autoguiding, captured in 'Desire', stacked in Registax 3 (except 47Tuc- easyHDR), processed and cropped in PhotoShop CS.

Whoooo! that's a mouthful :lol:

[xelasnave]

Good on you Ken. Nice work
alex

[Shawn]

Great work Ken, and may the seeing continue to be outstanding for you...

;)

[Ric]

A nice set of images Ken, it looks like you certainly made the most of the night.
47Tuc came up very nice indeed.

Cheers

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks Alex, Shawn and Ric.

First time I've ever imaged Deep Sky with so much Moon. I usually avoid imaging on Moony nights.

Yeah, that 47tuc is the best Glob I've got so far. :) Globs are such hard suckers to image.