Ngc 602

Stevec35 (Steve) · #1 02-10-2010, 09:41 PM

Here's a shot of NGC 602 in Hydrus, an outlying nebula in the SMC. I've never imaged this one before so didn't know what to expect. It seemed to be fainter than I imagined but maybe it's my light polluted skies. Seeing conditions were no better than average.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/N...STL6303_RC.htm

strongmanmike (Michael) · #2 03-10-2010, 12:15 AM

Gee Steve that's a lot of exposure

...is it that faint..?

Nice job, you are getting quite a collection of these zero'd in on Magellanic cloud tid bits huh?..that's the great thing about your scope

Mike
welcome back by the way

Stevec35 (Steve) · #3 03-10-2010, 03:42 AM

Thanks Mike. Yes, I'm somewhat bothered by the apparent faintness and wondering if I did something wrong. There is only 70 minutes of real luminance in there though - the rest is synthetic.

Cheers

Steve

Stevec35 (Steve) · #4 03-10-2010, 08:32 AM

Whoops! Just noticed I got the exposure caption wrong. There's only 240 minutes of Ha, not 400.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #5 03-10-2010, 08:48 AM

Nice work Steve. What FOV does your setup give?

Paul Haese · #6 03-10-2010, 12:11 PM

Nice Steve. That would be a small target on my gear. Image scale makes all the difference.

Stevec35 (Steve) · #7 03-10-2010, 02:11 PM

Thanks Paul and Peter

Peter, the FOV for this setup is 22.5 x 33.8 arcminutes.

Cheers

Steve

Hagar (Doug) · #8 05-10-2010, 10:49 AM

Very nice and unusual target. Again a bit small for my gear to do it any justice at all.

gregbradley · #9 05-10-2010, 07:29 PM

A fabulous image Steve and nice and different. I have been admiring your terrific images for years on the SBIG group.

Its great to see you post here.

Greg.

Stevec35 (Steve) · #10 06-10-2010, 06:42 PM

Thanks Greg and Doug. I very much appreciate your comments.

Martin Pugh · #11 08-10-2010, 11:22 PM

Hi Steve

we did exchange emails on this very nice image off the forum, but again, I like it a lot particularly as I have not seen this before.

cheers
Marti

Stevec35 (Steve) · #12 11-10-2010, 07:55 AM

Thanks Martin. I think I suggested this one to you as a possible target quite a while back. Of course you are a bit too far north for it these days.

sjastro · #13 11-10-2010, 02:34 PM

I didn't know you posted here Steve.

A very fine image. I imaged this one many years ago with the C11, it doesn't compare well with your image.

Regards

Steven

Stevec35 (Steve) · #14 11-10-2010, 04:59 PM

Thanks Steven. I've only recently started posting here.