NGC 1662 in Orion

[TrevorW]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylotian/5085808700/?reuploaded=1#/photos/mylotian/5085808700/lightbox/

Target: NGC 1662 in Orion
Camera: QHY 8 OSC
Scope: GSO CF RC200
EFR: WOF2 reducer f/6.4
Mount: EQ6 Pro
Exposures: 90min in 15 lights x 6min captured 15/10/2010 between 9:00 and 11:30pm
Seeing: 40% moon, slight wind, good seeing
Guiding: Orion Starshoot Autoguider using PHD with ED80
Focus: Focus Bahtinov mask
Stacking: DSS with flats etc

Processing: PS CS3
Dreyer's description: Cl of L & S sc st
Cross Identifications: GC 905, h 332, H 7. 1. .
Right Ascension: 4 : 48.5 (hours : minutes)
Declination: +10 : 56 (degrees : minutes)
Apparent Magnitude: 6.4
Apparent Diameter: 20. (arc minutes)

[DavidU]

Nice one Trev, lovely colours. It looks like jems on black velvet.

[marki]

Yes I like the colours as well, you are getting it down to a fine art mate.

Mark

[TrevorW]

Thanks Dave and Mark

Mark, still a long way to go like all artists I'm still not happy with it.

I hope you got out last night the weather we've been having of late we could see all of October having relatively clear nights.

[gregbradley]

That linkn doesn't work for me. I get the pink and blue circles rotating and then nothing. Perhaps it take a really long time to download. How large is the image?

Greg.

[TrevorW]

Hi Greg

Some people have issues others don't the file isn't that big

I've attached as version here

Cheers

[strongmanmike]

This IIS posted version is much better than the version on flickr, the stars are round now rather than square, looks lovely :thumbsup:. Can you flatten out the brightening in the centre though?

Mike

[mithrandir]

Maybe it's your browser security settings. You have to enable yimg.com and yahooapis.com as well as flickr.