To be honest I wasn't even going to try with my little setup, but curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought him back. ;-) It's absolutely nowhere near M&T's awesome image http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=150977 but I am really thrilled to pick up some of the tidal force interaction between NGC1532 and NGC1531. I didn't think I had a hope, but you don't know until you try. Stayed up all night with match sticks under my eyelids to capture just over 5 hours worth of data.
GSO 10" F4 Newtonian, 419 x 45 seconds on a HEQ5 Pro unguided, Pentax K-5.
And congratulations on capturing the supernova, and so clearly and unambiguously. Discovered by ATLAS using a half metre scope on 12th November. Almost brand new. I was ridiculously excited even though you told me about it, and someone else found out about it, and someone again discovered it two weeks earlier.
Hi Kevin,
that's great news to have captured the supernova.
It seems that Mike & Trish have captured it too.
I don't see it on CHART 32 - a much older picture: http://chart32.de/images/objects/gal..._HaLRGBc80.jpg
BTW, if your nice 10" scope would classify as a finderscope, then my 4" doublet would be....an eyepiece?
Hehheh, it's all relative I suppose. I do love my ED100, but it seems a bit slow compared to the 10" at F4. I'd like something with longer focal length for these galaxies, but I don't think DSLR's like F9+ very much.
Nice one Kevin and how jammy is that, getting the SN!
I used to have great fun with the ED100 and a DSLR. Stick the SW flattener reducer on it and you get down to something a bit more manageable (I think it was around 7.8 or so) then just stick it out and get as much data as you can.
Thanks David. I also have an Orion reducer / flattener, I think it gets the F9 ED100 down a bit further than the SW one. I think F 7.2? Not bad really at that and the stars are still so small and sharp. I got my only APOD with that setup on a comet as I couldn't fit the big newt out the window lol.
