NGC104 - 47 Tucanae

[Tamtarn]

This was taken in the same session as our previous post of Tarantula
Very windy conditions

PENTAX ist DL Unguided

6 x 20sec 5 x 30sec Light frames - Full frame not cropped

Stacked DSS Processed PS CS2

[leon]

Hey Dave not half bad actually for such short exposures, well done, and in those conditions.

Leon

[h0ughy (David)]

nice going considering the gale

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Barb and David, you astound me!!!

You haven't even got your Guiding happening yet and you STILL have nice round stars!!! And in a gale!!!!!

What rabbit are you going to pull out of the hat when you do get Autoguiding happening and no wind???

Great work. That is a nice image of 47Tuc

[Dennis]

Very nice - looks like focus is spot on, which is quite an achievement by itself. Well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent image, very well done.

[jase (Jason)]

Great image Barb and David. 47Tuc is a tough target to image process as the dense core is extremely bright (far brighter than Omega Centauri). This make it difficult to avoid clipping details. Well done.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for the comments Leon : Houghy : Ken : Dennis : Mike and Jase

Our imaging is a combined effort by the two of us.

I do the initial set up then we both do the align with the Polarscope . I do the focusing and imaging and Barb does the processing.

We appreciate the positive feedback and consider we're doing the best we can with our equipment particularly at our age

Barb reads all the helpful posts by Jase and others to try and understand processing. Some of it's a bit too technical so she uses the basics in PS.

Thanks again guys

David

[xelasnave]

A fine capture. Not as easy as one first thinks to bag this magnificent object. Congratulations.
Well done.
alex

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Alex appreciate your comments.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Well done guys

even captured NGC 121 in the lower left corner !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tamtarn]

AHA !!! Saw something there wasn't sure what it was thanks Al