Ngc 602

[Stevec35]

Here's a shot of NGC 602 in Hydrus, an outlying nebula in the SMC. I've never imaged this one before so didn't know what to expect. It seemed to be fainter than I imagined but maybe it's my light polluted skies. Seeing conditions were no better than average.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/NGC602_STL6303_RC.htm

[strongmanmike]

Gee Steve that's a lot of exposure :eyepop:...is it that faint..?

Nice job, you are getting quite a collection of these zero'd in on Magellanic cloud tid bits huh?..that's the great thing about your scope :thumbsup:

Mike
welcome back by the way :hi:

[Stevec35]

Thanks Mike. Yes, I'm somewhat bothered by the apparent faintness and wondering if I did something wrong. There is only 70 minutes of real luminance in there though - the rest is synthetic.

Cheers

Steve

[Stevec35]

Whoops! Just noticed I got the exposure caption wrong. There's only 240 minutes of Ha, not 400.

[peter_4059]

Nice work Steve. What FOV does your setup give?

[Paul Haese]

Nice Steve. That would be a small target on my gear. Image scale makes all the difference.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Paul and Peter

Peter, the FOV for this setup is 22.5 x 33.8 arcminutes.

Cheers

Steve

[Hagar]

Very nice and unusual target. Again a bit small for my gear to do it any justice at all.

[gregbradley]

A fabulous image Steve and nice and different. I have been admiring your terrific images for years on the SBIG group.

Its great to see you post here.

Greg.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Greg and Doug. I very much appreciate your comments.

[Martin Pugh]

Hi Steve

we did exchange emails on this very nice image off the forum, but again, I like it a lot particularly as I have not seen this before.

cheers
Marti

[Stevec35]

Thanks Martin. I think I suggested this one to you as a possible target quite a while back. Of course you are a bit too far north for it these days.

[sjastro]

I didn't know you posted here Steve.

A very fine image. I imaged this one many years ago with the C11, it doesn't compare well with your image.

Regards

Steven

[Stevec35]

Thanks Steven. I've only recently started posting here.