[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Greg,

Amazing quality for a test image.

Wow..17" at F4.5.....a hypertuned hyperstar!

This will let you image some very dark parts of the sky.

I am looking forward to seeing some unique photos.


Thanks.

Ross.

I think this setup will now allow doing some dust shots and some narrowband during the moon weeks much better with the reducer. Also the image scale on some of the more common objects is probably better for framing and composition.

Originally Posted by Tandum

WOW Greg, thats a lot of signal. I've got hours of Ha @ F8 on helix but it's nothing like this. What is the imaging camera?

It is a very faint nebula. I took several hours of it a few times and both were very poor. So the reducer and binning helped a lot.
Camera is a FLI Proline 16803 with about 62% QE at -35C and an Astrodon 5nm Ha 50mm square filter.

Originally Posted by alan meehan

Greg aweinspiring the outer nebula is just amazing what a perfect set up well done
AL

Thanks Alan. It takes a while to setup these things up so you are happy with them.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! Light bucket! Splendid shot. Deep as. The field looks very good too.

Thanks Marc. I did M8 too!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

I really like the third outer ring visible in the top of the image. Nice scale too.

The extent of the nebula is surprising. Its a massive improvement over some Ha I took of it about 6 months ago which was really disappointing.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

He he he, we got ourselves Schmidt cameras huh? ...David who..??

Mike

Hehe. We've both got our fast light buckets now.

Originally Posted by netwolf

Greg,
Wow so much signal and great details on the rings. I cant wait to see the Color version of this. You could do your own sky survey with that thing.

Thanks Fahim. I plan on doing a narrowband on this to start. I'll add some RGB once the moon goes.

Originally Posted by Saturn%5

Great Shot

Yes I was pleased it caught so much.