Hi to All
Recently I entered an informal partnership with Dean Salman who has a remotely operated observatory with a 20cm F4 Maksutov Newtonian about 50 miles from Tucson Arizona. Dean is going to allow me to use the observatory about 2-3 times a week and in return I am to provide him with some data on selected southern objects. Dean’s main speciality is the Sharpless catalog and he has a web site of his Sharpless images here:
http://www.sharplesscatalog.com/
I’ve been taking some images for a few nights now and here are the preliminary results. The camera is a QSI 583 WSG. All the images are black and white at the moment but some colour should follow soon.
M101. This has always been one of my favourite galaxies. The image is a 60 minute luminance shot taken under fairly bright moonlight.
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/M101_DSl.jpg
IC405 in Auriga is also known as the “flaming star” nebula. This is 2 hours of hydrogen alpha:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/IC405_DS.jpg
PuWe1 is an incredibly faint and large planetary nebula in Lynx only discovered in 1980. It has a diameter of about 20’. This image is 5 hours 20 minutes Hydrogen Alpha.
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/PuWe1_DSt.jpg
Cheers
Steve