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Originally Posted by Startrek
Mike,
Super images from up there on top of the world
At least the moon was traversing quite low
Gee us coastal huggers jump for joy when seeing is below 3.0
Nothing wrong with imaging Carina , there’s so much to explore with bigger scopes
Well done !!
Martin
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Cheers Marty, I'm over the Moon with the seeing quality up there (hate the Moon though
), it was not a given and I was worried but while it's no Atacama, the seeing improvement is significant over Wallaroo..thaaaank God! Yes, the Carina Nebula is a bit like the LMC really, can make several images from the one object
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Originally Posted by Dave882
That's a fantastic result Mike! Amazing details - I think I like the 'Mystic Mountain" framing best but honestly they're all fantastic. Eagleview must be so rewarding to shoot at!
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Mate its magical, the thrill is palpable when I am on site under a dark clear sky! Feels like Christmas morning when I was a kid, every time! One thing that a dark and steady site does, is make your processing easier, much less gradient filled, faint, blurry data, a dream to work with
..can only imagine what data from Cerro Tololo and La Silla etc must be like to work with!
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I think we must be imaging off the same playbook at the moment - I've been attempting some closeups of the Homunculus Neb but with only a couple of clear nights this year still a work in progress to get the best settings. My seeing has been so bad of late I've tried some short exposure shots (0.5sec) of the bright lobes of the HN with some success and APP reporting FWHM around 1.2" on the better subs and pretty nice detail coming through. It's no Eagleview tho...
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Sounds very promising and a good approach, hope you get it done, look forward to seeing what you end up with
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Originally Posted by Dilsh
Fantastic images Mike. I agree, there is so much in this target at higher focal lengths.
Happy "seeing"
Dilshan
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Thanks Dilly
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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Mike,
superb image.
you even picked up the oval shape of the Homunculus Nebula -
just like Martin but even clearer - as per his here:
https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...d.php?t=203069
Is that becoming the new standard for Eta Carinae?
"a finer image scale than 0.84"/pix"
I bet you have been looking at QHY-600 adverts?
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Maaate I'm looking at
lots of things...just can't have any more...for a while...a looong while
Aaaactually, the whole hourglass shape is visible and even a
little detail in each lobe
...at just 1120mm FL and without lucky imaging and no AO either, just traditional autoguiding...really need a finer image scale though but until then I'm satisfied with the improvements the site has provided in the resolution capability...so I will juuust have to re-image everything I have ever shot!
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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Mike,
just thinking now -
if you could somehow get a 2X Barlow or even a 3X Barlow into your system
and you took video you'd be able to use lucky imaging to really
zoom in on that Homunculus Nebula.
You've got the high quality optics to do it.
I suppose it's too difficult or expensive to set up?
cheers
Allan
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Yeah thought about the Barlow solution but just too fiddly to setup...I'm lazy
...I'll just stay wondering...
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