As far as cloudless and moonless goes Sunday night was a corker here in Newcastle (as was last night and tonight I believe?) but t'was a single night for me, in fact not even the whole night - just a 4hr HaOIIIRGB exposure actually.
Apart from the usual crap seeing
, all went 100% without a hitch and I grabbed some decent colour data for a change (still only 6X5min each colour but that's enough with this scope) and here is a relatively deep image of the region around the Swan.
As I seem to do these days, this is an RGB balanced image using Ha and OIII data mixed with RGB
A small crop is attached to this post for illustrative purposes but here is:
The Full 1.8deg X 1.8deg Frame (50% res)
A Nice Crop of the good bits (75% res)
and even though it was poor seeing....
a close up of
The Swan only (100% res)
Here is the 2hrs worth of
H-alpha full frame (50% res)
Ah sigh..another image taken at sea level in light polluted Newcastle, bring on cold, dark and high Canberra...Cheers big ears
Mike