Omega Centaurus

[richardo (Rich)]

Hi all,
aahhh the lovely Omega to the rescue.
Was a real iffy night with conditions taking so long to settle after another stinkin' hot day. Was after more Ha data to add to another object in the, 'still to finish' pile, but things didn't look good.
Time was marching on so thought I'd visit the grand lady of all globulars... considering the unsteady conditions, she didn't disappoint.

If you'd like to have a look, link to my front page..
http://www.baytop-observatory.com
or direct...
http://www.baytop-observatory.com/cc...aurus_newt.htm

Cheers
Rich

[tornado33]

Very nice, the fainter blue stars come through well.
Scott

[duncan]

Hi guys,
Now thats the type of photos that anyone would be proud of.
Can't wait to get my scope!!!!!!!!

Cheers,
Duncan

[rogerg (Roger)]

Congrats on the nice image. It's not perfectly sharp but is very good considering how you describe the conditions. I wonder how many stars are visible in it.

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful image Richard.

[avandonk]

Originally Posted by rogerg

Congrats on the nice image. It's not perfectly sharp but is very good considering how you describe the conditions. I wonder how many stars are visible in it.

RegiStar finds 6322 stars in this fine image

Bert

[Ric]

Great image Richard, well resolved all the way to the core.

Very nice indeed.

[Garyh]

Nice image rich! I like the star colors in it..like Roger says....I hope the seeing will be a bit better for you soon. Its bad enough with all the cloud, then smoke etc then a clear night at last only to have bad seeing...I know it drives me nuts...lol, but very well done indeed!
Cheers Gary

[richardo (Rich)]

Big thanks guys!!

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Very nice, the fainter blue stars come through well.
Scott 


Thanks Scott, was happy with the result considering the moon.

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Now thats the type of photos that anyone would be proud of.
Can't wait to get my scope!!!!!!!!
 Cheers,Duncan 


Thanks for the nice compliment Duncan, hope your scope rolls up soon for some serious action.

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Congrats on the nice image. It's not perfectly sharp but is very good considering how you describe the conditions. I wonder how many stars are visible in it. 


Cheers for that Roger, could have sharpened it more but then it looses its natural appearance imo. Still, there will be other nights hey!

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iceman-Beautiful image Richard. 


Thank you Iceman, great object for short exposures with plenty to fill the eye balls !

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RegiStar finds 6322 stars in this fine image- Bert 


Thanks for taking the time to do the count Bert

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Ric- Great image Richard, well resolved all the way to the core. Very nice indeed. 


Thanks Ric for the nice comments! We are certainly lucky to have 2 of the brightest and largest globulars in our hemisphere just out the back door

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Nice image rich! I like the star colors in it..like Roger says....I hope the seeing will be a bit better for you soon. Its bad enough with all the cloud, then smoke etc then a clear night at last only to have bad seeing...I know it drives me nuts...lol, but very well done indeed!
Cheers Gary 


Thanks Gary !! Be nice to get into Autumn, hopefully things will settle down, ready for some cool crisp nights with no sintilation. And to think, what we all have to put up with, sometimes we even get some imaging done.

Cheers again guys, appreciate your feedback!
Rich

[skeltz (Rob)]

VERY NICE RICO must be loving your new scope ah?Yes omega king of the globs....we are spoilt in this hemisphere aren,t we!!!

[Diamond Rose]

Just brilliant! Sights like that remind me why I love astronomy.

~ Bruce

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

beautiful rich. plenty of stars in that one they are all so round.

[Blaznee (Gary)]

Hello to all at IIS

I am just getting back into astronomy after a rather long intermission of a couple of decades. Presently I am in the middle of obtaining the various bits and pieces that I will need to see through the sky.
Once setup I will be asking many naive questions of the IIS community.

Apologies in advance

[ving (David)]

[richardo (Rich)]

Thanks Rob, Bruce, Eric and David...
Not too hard to get a reasonable image with such a lovely subject hey!!

We are certainly blessed in this hemisphere with some of the skies best and brightest for sure.

On ya's...

Cheers
Rich

[ausastronomer (John Bambury)]

Hi Rich,

I don't often visit the astrophotos section for several reasons. However the link from the homepage aroused my interest and brought me here. Let me say that your image is an absolute cracker and anyone would be proud to stick their name on it.

CS-John B

[richardo (Rich)]

Originally Posted by ausastronomer

Hi Rich,

I don't often visit the astrophotos section for several reasons. However the link from the homepage aroused my interest and brought me here. Let me say that your image is an absolute cracker and anyone would be proud to stick their name on it.

CS-John B

Thank you very much for the compliment here John !!!
Lots of issue I've battled with the home made newt.... tracking down flexure in the tube and focuser plus getting use to having so much more weight on the mount changes charactoristics from what i became use to.
But not that all this mattered with the short sub exposures of this image.
Have a couple more parts to come to finally be happy and confident with this scope for longer autoguided exposures.
So your comment is reward for lots of problem solving.

All the best
Rich

[atalas]

Nice work Rich !

[g__day (Matthew)]

I go my first real astro shot last night too - and of Omega on a guided C9.25 into a Canon 400D for 2.5 minutes, slight darkening with MaximDL

Very happy with it - compressed from 4mb to a lossy 145kb it looks okay still!

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Originally Posted by g__day

I go my first real astro shot last night too - and of Omega on a guided C9.25 into a Canon 400D for 2.5 minutes, slight darkening with MaximDL

Very happy with it - compressed from 4mb to a lossy 145kb it looks okay still!

It works for me, I love it