New Hydrogen Alpha images

[tornado33]

Howdy all
Heres some new 7 Nanometre H Alpha images taken under the 3/4 full moon.

Eta Carina Nebula, 6 x 200 sec ISO 800

IC 2944 "Running Chicken" nebula 3 x 200 sec ISO 1600

Both taken with my 6 inch F3.6 Schmidt Newtonian and Coma Corrector through the Baader 7 Nm Ha filter. I had to focus by trial and error as nothing is visible through the filter (except Jupiter when it was up)
Scott

[Striker]

Brilliant Scotty,

How much detail has that eta carina shot..wow really nice mate.

[avandonk]

very nice result Scott. What size and what sort/brand is your H alpha filter?

Bert

[tornado33]

Thanks.
The filter is an un mounted 2 inch diameter Baader filter, gold on one side, pinkish red on the other. It was a prototype they gave to me for using some of my images on their site here :)

http://www.baader-planetarium.de/zubehoer/okularseitiges_zubeh/farbfilter.htm#uhc-s

I tried shooting the Horsehead and was a bit dissapointed, I think the Horsehead gives off not just H Alpha light but some H Beta as well?

Eta Carina really does well with a H A filter though.
Scott

[Itchy]

Great stuff Scott.

You wont be needing that 10" anymore huh?

Cheers

[tornado33]

hehehehe I will be keen to get it going though, with a freshly coated mirror :)
Scott

[tornado33]

Ive tweaked the Eta carina pic and uploaded a higher res. version here
http://scottalder.fotopic.net/p27774245.html
Can bring up a full size version there.
Scott