The Eagle nebula, 2 hours

[tornado33]

Hi all.
Earlier tonight I captured the Eagle Nebula. Its 8 x 15 minutes ISO 200. Only UV/IR filter, no nebula filter as they look a bit monochromatic. Was a pretty light polluted shy though, and gradient was noticeable too from the bright sky to the east from Newcastle. Bit of a jetstreal overhead according to cloudfreenight too.

Full res. version here.
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/eagl...10inchfin2.jpg
Had a nice bright guide star for the off axis guider makes manual guiding a lot easier on the old Sampson mount and 10 inch f5.6 newtonian. Hutech full spectrum 350D camera
Scott

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Nice work, Scott!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Beautiful colour Scotty

Mike

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

I like it too! And guiding manually - surely one appreciates each and every sub

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's a very nice M16 indeed!

[theodog (Jeff)]

Nice one Scott.
You need some dark sky time again.

Last time I was in Newcastle I was saddened to see how poor the sky had become.

Who pays to have the sky a lovely blue at night?

I am truly amazed that you get such terrific images.

[tornado33]

Thanks all.
Oh yes to get 2 or more hours imaging under dark skies like those of "Brolga" out of Coonamble or in the Warrumbungles where air glow is the eventual limiting factor.

But it is a challenge to see what I can coax out of the washed out skies of Newcastle. Am tempted one day to buy a smaller 8 incf f astrograph that's small car portable.