My latest effort on the IC5148 OIII halo

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

This has 18.5 hours of OIII and still looks a little colorless. I don't think my backyard is the ideal environment for imaging faint planetary nebula halos.

Cheers

Steve

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

[Paul Haese]

Very nice Steve. A very faint halo indeed. Congrats. Well mega'ed up.

[RickS (Rick)]

Well done, Steve! Just think... another 45.5 hours and you'll have twice the SNR The halo of IC 5148 is a very faint, elusive and difficult target.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Well done, Steve! Just think... another 45.5 hours and you'll have twice the SNR The halo of IC 5148 is a very faint, elusive and difficult target.

Cheers,
Rick.

Don't have the patience mate - not like you. I suppose though if Sakib gets his OIII survey up I might be doing more of this stuff. Fortunately we've had reasonable skies recently - very unusual.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Very nice Steve. A very faint halo indeed. Congrats. Well mega'ed up.

Thanks Paul. As you said up at Parkes it looks like mega is the future.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

wow, that is really beautiful Steve - top work.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

wow, that is really beautiful Steve - top work.

Thanks Ray

[sjastro]

Well done Steve.

Steven

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by sjastro

Well done Steve.

Steven

Thanks Steven

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Exquisite Steve!

Cheers, Marcus

[atalas]

Very cool Steve!

[Ross G]

An amazing capture Steve.

What a beautiful photo!

Ross.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

An amazing capture Steve.

What a beautiful photo!

Ross.

Thanks Ross - glad you liked it

Originally Posted by atalas

Very cool Steve!

Thanks Louie. Somehow I always seem to have a degree of luck imaging this object.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Exquisite Steve!

Thanks Marcus

Cheers, Marcus

[atalas]

Interesting you say that mate because I experience the same on certain objects as we'll,a no luck on others...I wonder if this happens to everyone?

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by atalas

Interesting you say that mate because I experience the same on certain objects as we'll,a no luck on others...I wonder if this happens to everyone?

Who knows? With me it's mainly this object for the good luck. My images of it more than 10 years back still look pretty respectable.