Xmas Tree Widefield

[multiweb]

Here's my other shot from the only clear night we had last week.

The cone nebula. Same lens (150mm) and QHY9. No death ray from the moon on this one. :)

It looks a bit like an M42/M16 flower shape, although very very faint.
This is 40x300s so over 3h. Maybe I can get more tomorrow night, offset and get the Rosette to do a two panel mosaic. Fingers crossed.

Bigger one here (https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=6930D3AD12D5044C&id=6930D3AD12D5044C%21863#cid=6930D 3AD12D5044C&id=6930D3AD12D5044C%211170)and a plate solve here (https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1plcIN8NoCrdF7OPcvwylB950nEpt0ng-jykCswN3dM76aEqN9M-n-xZVfNFAmzW_LUOa2GegNY_0KLAJlTi_P3w/NGC2264_B_ha_150mm_ff_T.jpg?psid=1) .

Thanks for looking. :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Good capture of a very faint and very large structure...adding the Rosette would be tre'z cool :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Lovely, wide view, Marc! What did you use to do the plate solve?

Cheers,
Rick.

[peter_4059]

Very nice Marc.

[Ross G]

Hi Marc,

Great photo.

You have captured some very fine detail.

Nice composition also.

Thanks.

Ross.

[multiweb]

Thanks Peter. :thumbsup: I was hoping to complete tonight but the forecast went south unfortunately. Maybe end of the week now.


Thanks Rick :thumbsup:. I use unimap (http://larryo.org/astronomy/software/unimap/download.html).


Thanks mate. :thumbsup:

Thanks Ross. :thumbsup: Yeah it's faint alright. Lens was fully opened.

[atalas]

Looks great!well done Marc.

[multiweb]

Thanks Louie - glad you liked it. :thumbsup:

[TheDecepticon]

Very nice, Marc.:)

Would look great in colour.:thumbsup:

[stevous67]

Sweet image Marc, lovely detail of a faint object.

Best regards,

Steve

[allan gould]

Nice image there Marc and I really like the use of Unimap to plate solve the image

[Poita]

I could look at plate solves all day.
Just on that, everyone should give unimap a go, and give feedback, it would be worth helping to improve what is a great piece of free software that can be compiled to run on almost anything, Windows/OSX/Linux etc.

[TrevorW]

Nice one Marc now for colour

[multiweb]

Thanks mate. :thumbsup: LP + rain = Fat chance for color. Way too faint as well. Getting this area would be long term project from very dark skies. Maybe next drought.


Thanks a lot Steve. Glad you've enjoyed it. :thumbsup:


Thanks Allan. :thumbsup: Yeah there's a lot of known objects around this field. It was interesting to see how it all fits in.


Thanks Peter. :thumbsup: Unimap is certainly a cool little utility.


Thanks Trev. :thumbsup: Colour? What's that? Here's hoping. ;)