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Old 22-12-2008, 03:20 PM
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Hi All

This is a rushed, not very good image from last night. I was sick of looking at my pristine black skies and not being able to do some imaging as my observatory is still in pieces in my garage ... so I layed a few slabs by the side of my house and setup my scope and notebook etc ( which I hadn't used for atsronomy before ). I had installed CCDOPS on it before moving and the disks are no doubt in a box somewhere. Ofcourse the inevitable message flashed on screen " Windows has found New Hardware ... and can't find drivers for this device " so I had to log on to SBIG.com and download latest driver etc. This was all taking up precious time as an ominous cloud mass was looming from the west .... finally the ST2000XCM kicked into life and I could start alignment, calibration etc. By this time it was around 11.30pm and the clouds ( which are very difficult to see in dark skies ) had gotten a lot closer .... in fact I only had a clear hole in them around the LMC and SMC. Not to be deterred I slewed to NGC2070 and began a run. Well out of 7 frames before the cloud cover wiped all the sky out only 4 didn't prematurely self terminate due to cloud obliterating the guide star and ofcourse the target. Anyway this image is the result of stacking the 4x360 sec exposures. Minimum processing has been applied .... but I think my focusing was a little off etc. I was still pleased just to be out with my gear again trying to image after being here for three weeks.
I can't wait 'till I have completely clear skies to be able to do a decent session and also I have to get my act together and get my observatory back in action, I really don't like lugging, aligning and calbrating etc every time I want to image, it sucks !

Anyway a MERRY XMAS to everyone, see you again soon.



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4x360 sec exposures @ -17
WO FLT110 F7 Triplet Apo with WO 4" TMB field flattener
SBIG ST2000XCM ... NO FILTERS ... self guided with CCDOPS v5
SkyWatcher EQ6 Pro

Stacked in DSS v3.2.1
Slight adjustments, image reduction, PS CS3
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Old 22-12-2008, 08:08 PM
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BRAVO Steve!

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Old 22-12-2008, 08:12 PM
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Very nice Steve. If that is a rushed job then I cannot wait to see this image when you have time and setup on your side.
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Old 22-12-2008, 08:26 PM
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BRAVO Steve!

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Thanks Mike .... I was begining to think no one liked the shot.



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Very nice Steve. If that is a rushed job then I cannot wait to see this image when you have time and setup on your side.
Cheers Doug .... I'm looking forward to imaging from a permanent setup up here away from the city light polution .... still get those damn clouds though .

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Old 22-12-2008, 11:27 PM
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Cool picture. Very nice details in the spider.
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Old 22-12-2008, 11:50 PM
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rushed job my ar#@ i would be thrilled to get a pic even close to that nice work
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Old 23-12-2008, 01:25 PM
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Cool picture. Very nice details in the spider.
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rushed job my ar#@ i would be thrilled to get a pic even close to that nice work
I got some more data on ngc2070 last night which I hope will be much better as I had clear skies .... I just have to process it .... I set my expectations pretty high .... I'm glad you like this pic Jen.

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Old 24-12-2008, 09:26 PM
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Lucky man to get off an image before the clouds came in.

I almost got a few images off myself the last 2 nights but the started cord on my generator snapped and it took 2 hours to fix and then the filter wheel that worked last time suddenly didn't this time and by the time it was sorted the clear skies were lost.

Hey what a minute isn't WA wrecking the rest of Oz's skies with that pesky hurricane?

When you say no filter don't you use an infrared/UV filter with your XCM camera? I thought they were standard. If not check one out as they help reduce star bloat.

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Old 24-12-2008, 10:07 PM
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2070 and the LMC hits the spot ahhhh its great.....cheers Kev.
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