Up and running again M42 quicky!

Garyh · #1 14-01-2009, 04:01 PM

Hi Folks,
Well as most of you might know, we had a lightning strike up at home a few weeks ago which caused some havoc with some household gear and my little observatory. Luckily the damage wasn`t as bad as I first thought with only the Digital drive being damaged, shoestring DBUSB dead and a cable that needed to be re-crimped. Many thanks to Peter for the quick repair to the Digital Drive and the guys at Shoestring Astronomy for a super fast delivery! 6 days from ordering it was here..

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Thanks also to Fahim who lent me his old spare Digital drive incase I got stuck with a lenghty repair time...

Here is a quick shot of good ol M42 with a nearly full moon.
Just 26 x 10 sec and 26 x 45 sec at iso 800 and a quick process gave me this image.. Not very deep but I find it pleasing and everything is working as it should...

Shall do some deeper shots tonight before the moon gets too high.
cheers and thanks everyone..
Gary

Geoff45 (Geoff) · #2 14-01-2009, 05:32 PM

Nice image Gary. Getting the trapezium is alwasys a plus. Also the modded camera really shows up the red.

RobF (Rob) · #3 14-01-2009, 09:23 PM

Yay! Glad you're back in business Gary.

AlexN · #4 14-01-2009, 10:14 PM

Indeed.. good to see you're back in the saddle!

Now.. Surge protectors Gary.. Lots of them !

Octane (Humayun) · #5 14-01-2009, 10:28 PM

Gary,

Nice work. Glad to see you've got your issues sorted. Can't wait to see your deep images!

Regards,
Humayun

richardo (Rich) · #6 14-01-2009, 11:36 PM

Very nice recovery Gaz!
What Newt, 6 or 8"er??

Glad things are back and running.

All the best
Rich

multiweb (Marc) · #7 15-01-2009, 08:45 AM

Yeah you got the core trap real good. Nice pic.

Garyh · #8 15-01-2009, 09:05 AM

Thanks guys!
Great to be up and running! I missed 3 perfect cloud free and moon free nights when it happened

but so glad that the total repair bill was under $300.

Managed a good hour last night before the moon got too high and the seeing was excellent!

More tonight with luck..

cheers Gary

jase (Jason) · #9 15-01-2009, 05:33 PM

Nice work Gary. Not sure about the drop off of nebulosity however. Perhaps the outer regions could be stretched a little more. Rich colours look good. Well done.