ngc1365 wide

[richardo (Rich)]

Hi all,
still waiting on my F4 10" Royce mirror to roll up for my now completed atrograph newt ota. so the ed80 is the only choice at the mo....
The lum to this object I've had waiting around for the last month, still very pleasant experience using the Orion ED80 for wide field images.
Got out at 9pm, was after some colour on another object, but the guide computer that has been giving me grief, decided to die.
After taking it inside, rebuilding the thing then getting out again, it was around 11pm.
Conditions were quite poor with high thin cloud waffling through, but guiding behaved remarkably well.
So was quite happy with the out come to even have acomplished anything.
Usually these nights I give up in disgust.
Anyway, here's a link to the image via my front page, click on left thumb if
you'd like to take a look...
http://www.baytop-observatory.com

Hope you've all been able to get out

Cheers for now
Rich

[Lester]

Very nice image there Rich.

[Striker (Tony)]

Approx 3 hours of exposure time.

Nicely done Rich.

[astroboy]

Hi Rich
Nice shot , taking another shot next door to 1365 would be great and get the Fornax cluster , galaxies ahoy!!!
looking forward to hearing about the 10" F4 , someting I was thinking of doing before going down the moddedest SN10 road .

Zane

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

very nice rich. heaps of details .

[richardo (Rich)]

Thanks a lot you guys,
was happy with the results, but still would have liked to have the new hm built Newt operational for this...
Maybe I'll be lucky enough that the mirrors will roll up soon and have a crack at it with more aperture and resolving power.

Cheers
Rich