Exploring the LMC

Slawomir (Suavi) · #1 09-01-2016, 08:02 PM

Dear all,

Instead of starting to make a narrowband mosaic of the Carina as I was originally planning, I thought that exploring the LMC will be far more satisfying. So far got only about 3 hours of Ha of NGC 1763, a quick draft can be seen here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/236200/0/

As an experiment, I decided to try 5-minute subs instead of my usual 15-minute subs. I think such short narrowband subs work fine for me, and help me to avoid field rotation and also minimise effects of some tracking imperfections.

For reference, I also attached a screenshot with a single 5-minute sub and with a stack of 33 subs (both auto-stretched).

Thank you for looking
S.

Andy01 (Andy) · #2 09-01-2016, 08:04 PM

Nice one Slaw, a favourite of mine as well - look forward to seeing what you make of it

gregbradley · #3 09-01-2016, 08:46 PM

Nice shot Slaw. Looking forward to the final image myself.

Greg.

el_draco (Rom) · #4 09-01-2016, 08:58 PM

Exquisite detail. Love that tendril stuff in the top right of the large image on flic.kr....

RobF (Rob) · #5 09-01-2016, 09:52 PM

Looking great!

Regulus (Trevor) · #6 09-01-2016, 10:30 PM

That's a nice start Slawomir, and the hi res over on Flickr is a lovely photo to study.

Cheers - Trev

Atmos (Colin) · #7 10-01-2016, 01:23 AM

Looking good! Fantastic what having very low read noise allows exposure time wise

RickS (Rick) · #8 10-01-2016, 10:51 AM

A very interesting FOV, Suavi. Should be another great image

strongmanmike (Michael) · #9 10-01-2016, 05:18 PM

Coming along Suavi, it's a fabulous looking neb that one, like NGC 1934.

Should be another beauty when you are done

MIke

Slawomir (Suavi) · #10 10-01-2016, 08:31 PM

Thank you gents for your encouragement. Hopefully we will get a few clear nights so the project will have a chance of being completed.

I will need to put NGC 1934 on my imaging list

EDIT: Added a bit more data: http://www.astrobin.com/full/236200/0/