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tornado33
08-04-2006, 10:45 PM
Hi all
I was attempting to photograph RCW 103, a fairly bright little supernova remnant that oddly enough hasn’t been imaged much that I can see. On processing the image I found I had it, and also its neighbour RCW 104 near bottom left. There’s also the larger but much fainter RCW 106 between them (roughly centre image).
Image is 3 x 200 sec ISO 800 with 6 inch F3,6 scope, UHCS filter and coma corrector, modded 350D camera.
Ive enclosed a chart generated with Star Atlas pro of the area. Id be lost without this software for identifying these faint southern objects.

Heres a link to a larger version
http://images5.fotopic.net/?iid=ygx8ju&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

RCW 103 and 104 are listed as supernova remnants, while 106 is a "H a region" (hydrogen alpha emission)
Its exciting imaging stuff thats not been captured as often :)
Scott

h0ughy
08-04-2006, 10:59 PM
You are amazing mate, You should be providing images to Sky programs! A few royalties there!

EzyStyles
08-04-2006, 11:20 PM
:eyepop: :eyepop: you are the impossible. Thats dedication Scott. Well done.

tornado33
08-04-2006, 11:31 PM
hehehe I love pushing things to the max. :) When the 6 inch "cometracker " was built, there was no such thing as digital SLRs, only film, that wasnt as sensitive.
Scott

davidpretorius
09-04-2006, 07:12 AM
wow, you do some awesome stuff