Yeah, I'm still bashing the Toucam!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

When you have 9.5/10 seeing and 10/10 Transparency, ya run with what ya know!

So in went the Modded Toucam, and I had a blast.

Here is tonights effort

Cloud rolled in at 1am and wouldn't allow me to get any more than 3 frames of Flame Neb (1st time I've imaged it).

1. 47Tuc
2. Flame nebula
3. NGC253
4. Orion Nebula

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice work Ken. Seeing and transparency were good here last night too.. I can see lots of images being posted from all over, in the next few days.

[Dennis]

Hi Ken

Wow – impressive portraits of some of the finest sights in our skies; especially good for the lowly ToUcam. You’re an accomplished master at squeezing every last photon out of it!

Cheers

Dennis

[Alchemy (Clive)]

seems like you all stayed up last night, good work ken.
i looked at the moon just after sunset with the idea of a bit of webcamming and it was just boiling and jumping last night, so i just didnt bother, and now i read 10/10 and 9.5 GEEEEZZZZZZ not fair!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Thanks guys,

Yep it was a fantastic sky!!!!

Imaging info for the pics above (now that I have had a sleep):

47Tuc - 1x20 seconds, 1x30 seconds, 1x40 seconds, 1x50 seconds, 1x70 seconds, 1x80 seconds, 1x90 seconds. Taken into easyHDR and layered for High Dynamic Range, then PhotoShop for cropping.

Flame Nebula - 3x90 seconds, Reggie 3, Photoshop for contrast and cropping.

NGC253 - 20x160 seconds, Reggie 3, Photoshop for processing then cropping (Moon Glow very evident).

M42 - 10x120 seconds, Reggie 3, Photoshop for cropping.

To counteract the massive Amp Glow problem I have, all images were framed in the lower right hand corner of the chip, then cropped in Photoshop. Moon Glow made the task even harder.

All - Saxon ED80, Modified Toucam 840k Pro II, 0.6x FR, Astronomiks IR/UV filter, Saxon 120mm f5 Guidescope, Unmodified Toucam Guide Camera with 0.6x FR, Guidemaster Autoguiding, captured in 'Desire', stacked in Registax 3 (except 47Tuc- easyHDR), processed and cropped in PhotoShop CS.

Whoooo! that's a mouthful

[xelasnave]

Good on you Ken. Nice work
alex

[Shawn]

Great work Ken, and may the seeing continue to be outstanding for you...

[Ric]

A nice set of images Ken, it looks like you certainly made the most of the night.
47Tuc came up very nice indeed.

Cheers

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by Ric

A nice set of images Ken, it looks like you certainly made the most of the night.
47Tuc came up very nice indeed.

Cheers

Thanks Alex, Shawn and Ric.

First time I've ever imaged Deep Sky with so much Moon. I usually avoid imaging on Moony nights.

Yeah, that 47tuc is the best Glob I've got so far. Globs are such hard suckers to image.