Pot Luck Imaging in Ha

[cventer]

With moon up and a rare clear night after messing about with some gear I decided to randomly image a piece of sky last night.

I closed my eyes , moved Mouse on The SKYX clicked mouse,and selected goto where the cursor was.

I then clicked off 10 x 12 minute Ha images of whatever the scope was pointing at.

below is the results. From memory Its some patch near Eta Carinae within milky way.

Cool little patch of sky. I will come back and add color one of these days.

The postage stamp below does not do this justice. Highly recommend clicking on medium or large version.


Medium Size here (http://www.dslrfocus.com/gallery/NotSureHaMED.jpg) (1mb)

Large Version here (http://www.dslrfocus.com/gallery/NotSureHaLRG.jpg) (2.5mb)

Taken with Tak FSQ106, Paramount MX, Sbig STF-8300
Guided with OAG-8300 and SBIG Sti.

10 x 12 min Ha subs.

[Peter.M]

Lovely, I like that you can point your telescope into a random patch of sky and still capture something. It would have been really funny if you pointed the telescope with your eyes shut and it pointed to something common like eta carina!

[strongmanmike]

Fair enough, rather cool :thumbsup:

That's the Ant Nebula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mz_3) in the lower right corner so that narrows it down to a field somewhere in Norma :thumbsup:

Mike

[mithrandir]

UniMap detected 11500 objects and according to it:

Center is at 16:24:19.88 -51:04:25.95
FOV is 00:50:02 x 00:38:55