Astro shots from Astro Camp

[rogerg (Roger)]

Hi all,

Here's the astro shots I ended up with from astro camp. There's one more of Eta exposing nicely for the cental bit, but I haven't got around to processing that (might not either)..

Eta with William Optics FLT 110 (borrowed from a friend on the night)...
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...rentNodeId=568

M42 & Running Man with WO Megrez 80...
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=574

M46 & M47 with WO Megrez 80...
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=575

Planetary neb in M46 with WO Megrez 80 (cropped from above image)...
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=576

I have several shots on a roll of film not yet developed. They are all wide field, taken while doing the above shots. Not sure when I'll have that developed yet.

The difference in optical quality between the FLT 110 and WO 80 (v1) is plain to see. The megrez has significant blue fringing while the FLT 110 has absolutely none. The FLT 110 shot is even out of focus a bit but it still looks alright.

I wish I could upgrade the WO Megrez to get rid of the blue fringing, but I don't think I will. I'd rather spend my money on a new larger SCT I think, hunt down those faint galaxy clusters better.

I enjoyed the nights quite a lot, especially having he film camera going also (so easy to do film shots!) and am really looking forward to getting those results back. It's just not as easy as it once was to get slide film developed.

Roger.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Oops, I had the wrong M42 shot in there, all fixed now! (was a shot from october 2006!)

[h0ughy (David)]

interesting , your M42 shot exhibits the amp glow top left side and lower right corner - either over processing and teasing when getting out the image or your darks did not work well when you aligned and processed the image. Lovely colours and focus looked sharp, with some violet halos. Not bad , I like it. (i need to look at things like this to keep my hopes up, I haven't imaged for ages)

[rogerg (Roger)]

I was interested by that glow also. I'm used to it, but I'm also used to it being removed by dark frames. Not quite sure what happened there for it to be different this time.

I have in the past removed it manually (using a fake dark) but I didn't bother this time, short on time. I think I only used to do this before I used dark frames with the DSLR.

[Ric]

Wonderful images Roger, the little planetary is a beauty, love the bottle green colour.

Cheers

[Striker (Tony)]

Nice images Roger.

The FLT 110 is a great scope probably the best they have made.

[tornado33]

Yes nice shots indeed.
Scott