We'd love you to take part in the October Observing and Imaging Challenge. Please post your reports and sketches in the Observational Astronomy forum, and your images in the Deep Sky Imaging forum.
Please ensure all images/sketches obey the posting guidelines when you attach them.
While it would be nice if the report, sketch or image were taken in the month of October, it's not essential so feel free to post older reports and images if you're unable to take some new ones.
nice one, what mag do you need for this roughly???
David
I have viewed the whole 4 in a single field using my 31mm NT5 in my 12.5" F6 dob at about 63x. Your mileage will vary depending on what scope and eyepiece combination you are using, but the key thing is that I get a 1.3 degree true filed of view.
Andrew (sketch to come once I "scan" it with the digital camera)
Last edited by astro_south; 16-10-2005 at 02:08 PM.
Well not quite the quartet, but 3 out of 4 ain't too bad...
Cheers
Thats a dandy of a shot!
Next time I get a chance, I'll give these ones a run; however, I don't anticipate seeing much if anything - they only get about 10 degrees above the horizon for me. With something really low contrast like Galaxies, I'm not getting my hopes up, but you never know until you try!
Next time I get a chance, I'll give these ones a run; however, I don't anticipate seeing much if anything - they only get about 10 degrees above the horizon for me. With something really low contrast like Galaxies, I'm not getting my hopes up, but you never know until you try!
Jim, I was going to suggest you have a go at the Fornax galaxy cluster, but
I dont think that would get much higher for you. But it's another great location for multiple galaxy views.
I think you didn' get many images because the weather was lousy. I think you could have given it a bit more time.astroron
The DSO images and reports/sketches were merged into the 1 thread for the August and September challenges, and for both months I noticed a drop in image submissions.
You can still easily view the DSO images, they're in the DSO imaging section now.
I'm happy to try combining them next month again if the greater populous prefers to see them in the one thread.
Oh also, the other logical reason for separating them, is that DSO imagers love to ask lots of questions about an image that has been posted - details, camera, exposure, processing etc. It doesn't really make sense to have the thread (in this forum) filled with that sort of commentary. However it's perfectly placed for that sort of commentary in the DSO section.
