Rho Ophiuchi - Unmodified 350D

[rogerg]

G'day all,

I've been having a great time the last 5 nights in my observatory. I hadn't used it for months, and now have rediscovered it.

The new PC is running everything smoothly, the LX setup is plodding away through NGC's and the Losmandy is doing some fun stuff with wide field shots on the Megrez 90. Quite productive.

Here's a shot from the Megrez/Losmandy setup taken with the 350D:
http://www.rogergroom.com/items/rho_ophiuchi_nebula

I'm very pleased with it considering:
- unmodified 350D
- 3 minute subs
- haven't tweaked the setup for 3 months, just simply turned it on and started imaging.

The anoying bit is the edge distortion, appearing as rotation, caused by the WO v3 field flatenner over-correcting.

Roger.

[bloodhound31]

Love it Roger. Very nice.

Baz.

[iceman]

Great start back into it, Roger. It looks like there's an internal reflection there too?

Nice work!

[troypiggo]

Very nice! I keep seeing shots of this area, must have a crack at it this year.

[rogerg]

Thanks :)



Ahh! I forgot about editing that out. It's a dust spot somewhere in the train - it's on all m shots from the last few days from that ascope, and I haven't had time to do a new flat.

Thanks Mike, it was a good start back to it :) Unfortunately, 2 seconds after posting the message last night, it might have ended... I will start another thread in equipment forum :(



Thanks :) Highly recommended. I had only ever done wide field photographs of the area before, don't know why. Just hadn't got around to thinking of doing any more of the area. Then I pretty much stumbled upon it, and wow, great target :)

[TrevorW]

Nice one Roger me thinks the wider field shows the nebula colours more

[rogerg]

Thanks Trevor, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do get if you pursue the object more with your telescope.

[Tilt]

The ageing 350D is still the thrifty champ :) Well done.

Michael

[mswhin63]

That is a great shot, being an unmoddified camera there is hope for me yet.

Love the smooth feel to it.

[h0ughy]

nice shot roger

[telecasterguru]

Roger,

A great image of a lovely area. At 22 x 3 minutes that is still a fair amount of data to play with and you have done very well.

Frank