Favourite Targets

[pmrid]

What do we like to image: Can we have a quick and dirty list of the imaging challenges or comfortable familiars!
Summer and Winter; Galaxies, Nebulae, Globulars, Planetaries, planets, lunar? What makes your pulse-guider tick a little faster?
Peter

[AlexN]

Well well well... Where to begin..

Given my whooping great big field of view, my current interests lie in extended emission nebulae and super nova remnants. The other targets I've got in my list of things to do... while it seems rather ambitious, I plan to catalouge the Bernard objects... Dark nebulae throughout our galaxy..

Obviously the old favorites:
Messier nebulae, Eta Carine, Orion targets etc.. Given my focal length, Galaxies are mostly off the menu.... M31, M33 are really my galaxy options, and I chose to give them a miss this season...

I would mention what the current number one on my "To Image" list, however last time I did that, someone else got in and imaged it before I got a chance... From now on its all a biiiig secret.

[jjjnettie]

Anything big bright and beautiful Peter.

[allan gould]

What's beautiful Peter's NGC #? Only galaxies do it for me.

[pmrid]

I suspect there was a comma missing in the original. As far as I know I have not yet been given my own NGC classification.
Peter

[multiweb]

Correct. For me too it has to be bright enough to be "finder scope" friendly. After a few chardonnays I found GOTO can be quite a challenge? :confuse3:

[jjjnettie]

LOLOL I hear you there.
If I was smart I would be using my Gstar and the 50-300mm lens as my finder.
Hook it up to my little b&w monitor. Zoom in, zoom out. No squinting for cross hairs. Perfect.
Thanks for the catalyst Marc.

[AlexN]

JJJ - YES!! Do it, The electronic finder is THE way to go!

[jjjnettie]

It adds another 2 leads to the set up though.
And where would I put it???
Guess if I convert my finder into a guider, I can use that little dove tail I have my guide scope attached to.

[AlexN]

JJJ... You and I have both seen Paul's setup... If he can have ALLLLL those cables he sets up, im sure you can handle just 2 more! :) Where you would put it is a good question though.. but you're a smart cookie! I'm sure you'll figure it out!

[Paul Haese]

Ok I will play along with this.

I do everything so here is a list

Planetary - Jupiter, Saturn and Mars (I really should do venus and Mercury at some point)

Solar - Ha, some white light and solar eclipses

Lunar - try for these Moretus, Clavius, Tycho and the whole south polar region.

DSO - M83, NGC253, NGC1365, Horse head, Thors helmet, NGC6559 and NGC6188 just for starters.

There are heaps of things to image and so little time to do it all in.

[pmrid]

I like the idea of the electronic eyepiece. Isn't the GStar available in a wireless model? That'd be Uuber Cool wouldn't it. Dangerous to mention stuff like that to me. I'm a committed early adopter and gadget tragic. In fact I may have an electronic eyepiece thing here somewhere; now where did I put it???
Peter

[AlexN]

^^ :d ^^