IC2177 - Seagull Nebula

[zipdrive]

:hi: Season's Greetings

Spent a night of imaging totally on deep cycle battery power (no power at Golden grove atm). It was a good test to see if the setup would work with my power hungry laptop. The inverter started to complain low voltage just as the sun rose, I may not be so lucky during cold winter nights though.

Ended up imaging the Seagull nebula, well... only the head with my FOV.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~dahn/gallery/nebula/ic2177/ic2177.html

Thanks for looking :D

[AlexN]

Beautifully coloured image! Very smooth..

how big is your battery? and how much gear do you run off it in the field? I'm looking to make a power box so I don't need mains power.. but I fear I'll need a MASSIVE battery to run all my power hungry gear!

Congratulations on a beautiful image

[strongmanmike]

I agree with Alex this is a lovely subtle rendition, great job.

Given your restricted FOV I like the framing too :thumbsup:

Mike

[prokyon]

Awesome, great pic!!!
Your are a master of DSLR photography :thumbsup:

[Hagar]

Lovely image. Great resolution and a very easy image on the eyes. Star colour, focus and guiding all look very good.

Well done.

[telecasterguru]

I love this image. Very well set out and processed.

[CoolhandJo]

I echo the comments already posted. Great smooth colourful image. Well done.

[zipdrive]

Thanks everyone!!



I used a 75Ah deep cycle battery. My setup(laptop, 350D, EQ6, Starshoot guider) draws about 4.5~5A depending on what the laptop is doing. This used about approx 50% capacity after about 8hrs @ 20-15Celcius night.
I had the current draw measured through a benchtop PSU.
Hope this helps..

Dave

[Matty P]

Very nice indeed. Beautifully processed. Excellent colours and details.

Well done. :thumbsup:

[Lester]

Very nice image David, as others have said.

All the best.

[Octane]

Dave,

This is a really difficult object to image. I know I've tried and failed miserably. Probably because I didn't have enough data.

I also like the framing you've presented here.

Well done.

Regards,
Humayun

[rogerg]

Very nice image :thumbsup: and good to see something different to Orion etc :) I like the composition.

[TrevorW]

Nicely done David (Zippy)

[Garyh]

Very nice rendition Dave!
Nice framing, smooth and very natural!
:thumbsup:

[Martin Pugh]

An excellent DSLR image actually.

well done

Martin

[bartman]

Something to Aspire Too!!!!!
Will have to put that on my "DSO's to capture" list!
as soon as I can get my autoguiding set up to work!!!!
Well done
Bartman

[zipdrive]

Thank you all and Happy New year!!

[multiweb]

Very cool pic. Lovely colors and very smooth. :thumbsup:

[iceman]

That's a beauty, lovely image. Well done!

[Tamtarn]

Great image Dave good colour balance very nicely processed :thumbsup:

[batema]

Hi Dave,

I have to agree with all the above comments. How do you connect the laptop to the battery to protect it against current surge. I would love to be able to do this as well. Congratulations.

Mark

[zipdrive]

WoW! IOTW!!:eyepop: only just noticed it when I logged on.
Thanks you all for your kind words, now I don't feel so guilty ordering the QHY9 today :D

you guys gave me some ammo when I break the news to my wife....:D:D:D




I run a 300W inverter from Jaycar to run the Laptop PSU and 350d PSU, I'm there's loss of efficiency but it seems to work well enough.

[danielsun]

Beautiful image Dave.:thumbsup:

Very nice work ;)

Cheers Daniel.