M83 from Cambroon

[Tandum]

I missed out on the northern objects on Saturday night at Ron's, I had the mono camera setup and the northern objects where too low to get a full set of images before they set, so back to good old M83. Still no G2V colour calibration, the fog rolled in before I got it done and ended the night.

M83 LLRGB
L=12x300s 1x1 RGB=6x120s 2x2
Takahashi FS-102 @ F6
Starlight HX916
Manual wheel with true tek filters.

[renormalised]

Nice shot, if needing calibration, but a good deal of detail:)

[AlexN]

Looks real nice Robin.. Plenty of detail in there!!

Don't you hate that fog cutting an imaging session short!

[RobF]

Plenty of detail coming through Robin, and nice scale, as you promised the Starlight would give. Be interesting to see what colours come out as you pin down the calibration a bit more.

+1 re the fog. Beware the FOG! (I've been watching way too many horror movies...)

[jjjnettie]

Good one Robin!
You are going to 10 Chain Hill this weekend? You can gather more data then.

[Tandum]

Yes, I'm coming but no mono cameras this time and no more m83's :)

[jjjnettie]

What will be your plan of attack then?
I'll be going for something bright and beautiful. In other words and easy target.
The 8" went in for surgery this morning, and I've finally finished putting it back together. Time to tackle the collimation.
If I can get focus, good, if not, I've booked the 2" eyepiece adaptor in to get cut down first thing tomorrow.

[mexhunter]

Hi Robin:
Nice picture.
Grettings
Cesar

[telecasterguru]

Robin,

There is a great deal of information in the image. Would like to see it recolourised a little. (If such a word exists)

Frank

[Tandum]

Cheers Ceasar, it could be better.

Yeah Frank, I know, I have the data, but I need to calibrate these filters so I can mix them properly.

Jeanette, I wanna try that wide deep field shot. If you have sky6 goto SAO204500 and zoom in. You get to a point with maybe a dozen stars but hundreds of galaxies, all mag18 to 20. I dunno if the qhy8 will be sensitive enough to see them but it has the FOV I want. Plus everything on last weeks list that got cancelled :) I'll gather up my canon adapters this time as well just in case.

[jjjnettie]

I'll be imaging with the new scope tonight. She works just fine now!

[renormalised]

Might have to go long and deep on the sub times to get those really faint fuzzies out:)

[Tandum]

Excellent, remember that coma corrector needs to be 52-56mm from the camera sensor.

Yeah Carl, there's the rub, I can get 20minutes ok but longer than that and it all gets a bit wobbly.

[Hagar]

Very nice Robin, Starting to get that Tak detail in your images. Colour calibration will make overall processing that bit simpler but at least you are out under the sky and you can see stars.
Well done.

[Octane]

Robin,

Colours aside, that is exquisite.

Looking forward to what you cook up when you've got your calibration sorted.

Well done on capturing a cosmic cartwheel. :)

Regards,
Humayun