Ngc 891

[Dietmar]

Hello friends,

it seems it has been quite a while since I posted an image to the group.
This is mainly due to a very annoying mixture of bad weather and little time for the beloved hobby.
…cloudy nights and overcast days give the chance to use ones time for different things:
Educational talks on astro-related events, astro-education in public schools and more importantly, getting some interesting projects on wheels like raising people’s sensitivity to the IYA09, light-pollution and dark-sky per se.
Politians are hard to convince about things that really make sense for all of us (and not so much for the political party…),…the only argument they tend to accept is: money,…and introducing low-power-consuming laps and street-lights seems to be the very key… but this is really OT here…sorry.
Next summer we (the ars electronica center in linz and me) intend to let the „city-fathers“ turn out all „un-essential“ lights at night (well, that must be something like 99%...) around the main-place in town (250.000 inhab) and conduct a public huge star-party for each and everyone. Should be cool!

A couple days ago I was lucky to find time AND clear skies…it took me a while to figure how to run all the cables between the scope, filterwheel, electric focuser, and stuff…*g*
Honestly – after more than 8 weeks of „abstinence“ in astrofotografic terms I was just about to loose my routine here…
Well, here we are with a version of ngc 891, imaged with my „big boy“ the 9“ tmb apo und decent conditions.
A couple remarkable images have been posted here lately of that object, and I hope mine still qualifies for giving you a good time looking at it…
All data is on the website.
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891.html

here is the link to the full-size frame:
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891-full.html

thanks a lot for taking a look – and I apologize for the looong post.
Best to you all and tell all the people being your reach about IYA and what it’s all about.
Dietmar

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Dietz, another super image, with lots of excellent detail.

Have you been down under and seen our winter Milky Way overhead in July-August? It looks just like a close-up of NGC 891

Mike

[Dietmar]

...thakns Mike!
I wish I could be with you guys, as your climate is much better than here...I hate the cold,...though I am austrain and therefor a gnius in skiing, as every austrian should be...*GGG*

[Garyh]

Beautiful Dietz! Good to see you squeezed out another ripper image with the little time you have had lately.
cheers Gary

[Dietmar]

thanks Gary!

[gregbradley]

Brilliant image Diets - well done!

Greg.

[iceman (Mike)]

That is pretty darned special! Beautiful image, Dietz. Welcome back.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! That's a terrific picture. Never seen that much contrast and amount of details for side-on. Great shot.

[Dietmar]

thanks greg, mike and marc!
I appreciate the welcome back!

[AlexN]

Brilliantly colored and detailed Dietz,

Fantastic..

[astroron (Ron)]

Brilliant Dietz lovely image NGC 891 is a galaxy that I look for whenever it is in my skyeven though it is low down I can on occasions get a favourable view with the 16" and a 13mm Nagler.
I would love to see it from the northern hemisphere but I have a bit of a wait to get there
All the best.
Ron

[Rick Petrie]

Great work Dietz. Excellent colour, sharpness and contrast.
Love your work. Keep up those good images.

[Ric]

Hi Dietz, a superb rendition of this galaxy much much better than other pictures I have seen in books.

The detail in that central dust lane is fascinating with all the little offshoots coming off it.

Wonderful work.

[spearo (Frank)]

beautiful shot!
just jumps right out at you!
stars are perfect too in focus and color
top shot
frank

[Matty P (Matt)]

Superb image Dietz!

So much detail and the smaller galxies in the background are very nice.

[Phil]

Stunning shot you do some nice work.
Phil

[Dietmar]

...thaks alex. rick, ric, matty, phil, frank and rich!

[Hagar (Doug)]

Realy beautiful image Dietmar. The detail in the dust lane is quite extraordinary Your imaging setup works beautifuly.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Dietmar,

Congratulations on a splendid image. Love it!

Regards,
Humayun

[RB (Andrew)]

I am just in awe of your work Dietmar and this is no exception.

Thank you so much for sharing with us.