Having missed out on a trip to dark skies for new moon, I got in contact with Peter and organised to go up this weekend for a night... After a rather vicious but short lived thunderstorm that came through just after I'd finished setting up, the sky cleared by 2030hrs and the fun and games commenced..
I started off by taking 12x10min shots of the Tarantula.. Im not too sure about a lot of things with this image, but hey, its my first half decent shot of the spider
I then moved to the horse head. I wanted to nail some good colour data to add to the 4hrs 40mins of Ha that I had on my hard drive.. I took 12x10min subs. I dont think it quite shows off the region, but I think its my best attempt..
Straight after that, I jumped over to Eta Carine to capture colour data for last weekends 110 minute Ha luminance.. I captured 10x10min shots, 4 of which were scrapped due to the camera window fogging up whilst I was napping..
Now, This, I am impressed with. I dont know if the colours are right, and I dont really care
I just think its nice to look at..
After processing it up, I wondered... How would it look with no stars and a little more stretching? Well... Suffice to say I now have one of my own astro images as my desktop background... This is the first shot I've taken that I thought was worthy of desktop background for the week..
Thanks for looking and reading my little novel.
- All shots taken using TMB/LOMO 80mm F/6 triplet @ F/6, Orion SS Pro, HEQ5.
Alex.
Ps. Big thanks to Peter for having me!