Xmas Tree Widefield

[multiweb (Marc)]

Here's my other shot from the only clear night we had last week.

The cone nebula. Same lens (150mm) and QHY9. No death ray from the moon on this one.

It looks a bit like an M42/M16 flower shape, although very very faint.
This is 40x300s so over 3h. Maybe I can get more tomorrow night, offset and get the Rosette to do a two panel mosaic. Fingers crossed.

Bigger one here and a plate solve here.

Thanks for looking.

[Peter Ward]

Good capture of a very faint and very large structure...adding the Rosette would be tre'z cool

[RickS (Rick)]

Lovely, wide view, Marc! What did you use to do the plate solve?

Cheers,
Rick.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Very nice Marc.

[Ross G]

Hi Marc,

Great photo.

You have captured some very fine detail.

Nice composition also.

Thanks.

Ross.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Good capture of a very faint and very large structure...adding the Rosette would be tre'z cool

Thanks Peter. I was hoping to complete tonight but the forecast went south unfortunately. Maybe end of the week now.

Originally Posted by RickS

Lovely, wide view, Marc! What did you use to do the plate solve?

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick . I use unimap.

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Very nice Marc.

Thanks mate.

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Marc,

Great photo.

You have captured some very fine detail.

Nice composition also.

Thanks.

Ross.

Thanks Ross. Yeah it's faint alright. Lens was fully opened.

[atalas]

Looks great!well done Marc.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by atalas

Looks great!well done Marc.

Thanks Louie - glad you liked it.

[TheDecepticon]

Very nice, Marc.

Would look great in colour.

[stevous67 (Steve M)]

Sweet image Marc, lovely detail of a faint object.

Best regards,

Steve

[allan gould]

Nice image there Marc and I really like the use of Unimap to plate solve the image

[Poita (Peter)]

I could look at plate solves all day.
Just on that, everyone should give unimap a go, and give feedback, it would be worth helping to improve what is a great piece of free software that can be compiled to run on almost anything, Windows/OSX/Linux etc.

[TrevorW]

Nice one Marc now for colour

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

Very nice, Marc.

Would look great in colour.

Thanks mate. LP + rain = Fat chance for color. Way too faint as well. Getting this area would be long term project from very dark skies. Maybe next drought.

Originally Posted by stevous67

Sweet image Marc, lovely detail of a faint object.

Best regards,

Steve

Thanks a lot Steve. Glad you've enjoyed it.

Originally Posted by allan gould

Nice image there Marc and I really like the use of Unimap to plate solve the image

Thanks Allan. Yeah there's a lot of known objects around this field. It was interesting to see how it all fits in.

Originally Posted by Poita

I could look at plate solves all day.
Just on that, everyone should give unimap a go, and give feedback, it would be worth helping to improve what is a great piece of free software that can be compiled to run on almost anything, Windows/OSX/Linux etc.

Thanks Peter. Unimap is certainly a cool little utility.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Nice one Marc now for colour

Thanks Trev. Colour? What's that? Here's hoping.