Bug nebula now in colour

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Hi to all

Here's the result of my latest experimentation with the 36.8cm (14.5") Ritchey Chretien. Actually I wasn't going to bother posting it when I saw some of the recently posted images of this object taken with much smaller telescopes. Anyway, for what it's worth, here it is. The centre is a bit burnt out as I always underestimate the brightness of this thing. It was also taken under pretty windy conditions.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/n...L6303_RC14.htm

[Paul Haese]

Nice Steve. Great detail.

[silv (Annette)]

mhmm! love it!

[Peter Ward]

Colours look a little muddied to me... also looks like there is a bit of vignettting (flats a bit off/not applied )

Image scale is pretty impressive. A good effort just the same

[RickS (Rick)]

Still a nice image of a difficult target, Steve! I had a go at this with my RC10 from suburban skies and didn't get close to the quality of your image.

Cheers,
Rick.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Tough target but nicely done Steve.

Cheers, Marcus

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Great image Steve!

I can only dream of imaging like this at the moment.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Great image Steve!

I can only dream of imaging like this at the moment.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin. Don't underrate your imaging though.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Tough target but nicely done Steve.

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus

Originally Posted by RickS

Still a nice image of a difficult target, Steve! I had a go at this with my RC10 from suburban skies and didn't get close to the quality of your image.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Colours look a little muddied to me... also looks like there is a bit of vignettting (flats a bit off/not applied )

Image scale is pretty impressive. A good effort just the same

Thanks Peter. Yes I noticed the vignetting when you pointed it out and have now corrected it. Still not sure what happened originally though as I thought my current flats technique was bulletproof.

Originally Posted by silv

mhmm! love it!

Thanks very much

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice Steve. Great detail.

Thanks Paul. Could have been better though. Still have some issues with this scope.

[Ross G]

Great photo Steve.

Nice detail and colour.


Ross.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great photo Steve.

Nice detail and colour.


Ross.

Thanks Ross

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

These little buggers are a challenge Steve, apart from careful guiding and good collimation the seeing needs to be on ones side too. This looks pretty good...imagine having your new scope up in the Andes

Mike

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

These little buggers are a challenge Steve, apart from careful guiding and good collimation the seeing needs to be on ones side too. This looks pretty good...imagine having your new scope up in the Andes

Mike

Thanks Mike. The seeing with this one certainly left a lot to be desired and as well as this I'm still sorting out issues with the 14.5" but getting there I think.

[naskies (Dave)]

Looks great - some nice fine detail there.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by naskies

Looks great - some nice fine detail there.

Thanks Dave

[atalas]

Nice work Steve....I'll be dreaming of a 14.5"RC tonight!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by atalas

Nice work Steve....I'll be dreaming of a 14.5"RC tonight!

Thanks Louie. If you had experienced the trouble I've been having getting it up and running it would be more like a nightmare! Hopefully everything is okay now.

Cheers

Steve