Eagle and Trifid - Combined Data

[bluescope]

Because I haven't been able to do a full session on these objects due to adverse conditions I decided to combine data from several sessions and here are the results.

Eagle square crop ... 1 hour 52 mins total

Trifid is full frame ... 1 hour 14 minutes total

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[spearo]

fine shots both
well done
frank

[Hagar]

Very Nice Steve, Good focus, colour and detail in both.

[desler]

Great combination on both.


Darren

[RB]

Good work Steve.
Hope we get some decent weather again soon........:(

[multiweb]

Top shelf stuff Steve :eyepop: Two nice and tidy shots. Sharp as. M16 really sticks out. :thumbsup:

[bluescope]

Thanks for your comments everyone ... I hope you all get some decent weather soon ... it hasn't been too good over there lately has it.

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[bloodhound31]

Lovely Eagle Steve. You know this is my favorite object now...

[bluescope]

It's one of my favourites too Baz .... I also like to watch it's terrestrial counterparts flying through the valley below my place ... even had one perch in a dead tree on my block one day ... took a photo attached below.

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[bloodhound31]

I don't care what anyone says Steve, I reckon Wedge tailed eagles are the most magnificent, grand looking eagle of the lot!

Many was the time when I was working in the upper gascoyne regions and upper goldfields when I would drive past a Wedgie on a carcass on the side of the road. The eagles there would look at you at eye level through your window. They were huge and would not even move an inch if a cattle truck went past.

Man they get huge there!

[bluescope]

They are big alright ... we grazed one whilst driving through the Kimberley a few years back ... it had been feeding on a carcass in the middle of the road and couldn't get high enough before we drove through so our motorhome had a slight bump ... thankfully no damage to us or apparently the eagle which continued to fly off into the distance ;) It's wing span was much wider than our vehicle and when you are in the middle of nowhere you don't want to hit something like that ... it was just too full of roo to lift off in time and we held our breath :whistle:

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[peeb61]

Great images all round Steve...well done.
I like the Eagle, mate, stars nice and tight! How do you do it?

Paul

[bluescope]

Before I start I make sure my focus is pretty right ( as close to anyway ) and I make sure I have a good callibration for the SBIG so guiding is sub 1 pixel most of the time in CCDOPS usually around 0.1 to o.5 pixels. Occasional spikes over 1 pixel due to atmospheric turbulence are ok but if things start going wobbly I abort straight away coz I know I'll have spikes ... or nipples as Mike Siddonio likes to call them ... on the stars and I won't use the exposure anyway ... that doesn't happen too often thankfully.

Ofcourse this means that I am very hands on when imaging ... I am glued to the monitor to check things are going ok ... by the time I go to bed I have little numbers and graphs flashing across my eyes :lol:

To think I thought this hobby was about looking at the heavens not looking at a monitor :shrug: but once you're hooked on imaging you're hooked .... occasionally I step outside the observatory for a look at the sky just to remember what it looks like :whistle:


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