IC2177 - Seagull Nebula

zipdrive (Dave) · #1 27-12-2009, 12:35 AM

Season's Greetings

Spent a night of imaging totally on deep cycle battery power (no power at Golden grove atm). It was a good test to see if the setup would work with my power hungry laptop. The inverter started to complain low voltage just as the sun rose, I may not be so lucky during cold winter nights though.

Ended up imaging the Seagull nebula, well... only the head with my FOV.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~dahn/ga...77/ic2177.html

Thanks for looking

AlexN · #2 27-12-2009, 02:05 AM

Beautifully coloured image! Very smooth..

how big is your battery? and how much gear do you run off it in the field? I'm looking to make a power box so I don't need mains power.. but I fear I'll need a MASSIVE battery to run all my power hungry gear!

Congratulations on a beautiful image

strongmanmike (Michael) · #3 27-12-2009, 02:25 AM

I agree with Alex this is a lovely subtle rendition, great job.

Given your restricted FOV I like the framing too

Mike

prokyon (Werner Probst) · #4 27-12-2009, 06:41 AM

Awesome, great pic!!!
Your are a master of DSLR photography

Hagar (Doug) · #5 27-12-2009, 08:04 AM

Lovely image. Great resolution and a very easy image on the eyes. Star colour, focus and guiding all look very good.

Well done.

telecasterguru (Frank) · #6 27-12-2009, 08:36 AM

I love this image. Very well set out and processed.

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #7 27-12-2009, 01:13 PM

I echo the comments already posted. Great smooth colourful image. Well done.

zipdrive (Dave) · #8 27-12-2009, 03:48 PM

Thanks everyone!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexN

Beautifully coloured image! Very smooth..

how big is your battery? and how much gear do you run off it in the field? I'm looking to make a power box so I don't need mains power.. but I fear I'll need a MASSIVE battery to run all my power hungry gear!

Congratulations on a beautiful image

I used a 75Ah deep cycle battery. My setup(laptop, 350D, EQ6, Starshoot guider) draws about 4.5~5A depending on what the laptop is doing. This used about approx 50% capacity after about 8hrs @ 20-15Celcius night.
I had the current draw measured through a benchtop PSU.
Hope this helps..

Dave

Matty P (Matt) · #9 27-12-2009, 05:04 PM

Very nice indeed. Beautifully processed. Excellent colours and details.

Well done.

Lester · #10 27-12-2009, 05:24 PM

Very nice image David, as others have said.

All the best.

Octane (Humayun) · #11 27-12-2009, 06:51 PM

Dave,

This is a really difficult object to image. I know I've tried and failed miserably. Probably because I didn't have enough data.

I also like the framing you've presented here.

Well done.

Regards,
Humayun

rogerg (Roger) · #12 30-12-2009, 02:53 PM

Very nice image

and good to see something different to Orion etc

I like the composition.

TrevorW · #13 31-12-2009, 01:36 PM

Nicely done David (Zippy)

Garyh · #14 31-12-2009, 01:54 PM

Very nice rendition Dave!
Nice framing, smooth and very natural!

Martin Pugh · #15 31-12-2009, 04:22 PM

An excellent DSLR image actually.

well done

Martin

bartman (Bart) · #16 31-12-2009, 04:30 PM

Something to Aspire Too!!!!!
Will have to put that on my "DSO's to capture" list!
as soon as I can get my autoguiding set up to work!!!!
Well done
Bartman

zipdrive (Dave) · #17 31-12-2009, 10:43 PM

Thank you all and Happy New year!!

multiweb (Marc) · #18 02-01-2010, 05:20 PM

Very cool pic. Lovely colors and very smooth.

iceman (Mike) · #19 06-01-2010, 06:12 AM

That's a beauty, lovely image. Well done!

Tamtarn · #20 06-01-2010, 10:08 AM

Great image Dave good colour balance very nicely processed