Spare Tyre has a halo

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Remarkable and interesting image Rick. Look forward to any updates.
Ted

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Excellent work Rick! Don Goldman has done this one with only 16.5 hours total exposure - don't know how:

http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/d....cfm?imgID=263

I'm informed that a 3nm OIII filter makes a difference with these faint OIII halos and I think I'll be getting one.

Cheers

Steve

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks, Ted.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Excellent work Rick! Don Goldman has done this one with only 16.5 hours total exposure - don't know how:

Thanks, Steve. Don has 20" of aperture, dark skies and decent seeing. I am using a 3nm filter too but otherwise my situation compares poorly

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Looking promising, mate. Can't wait for the final.

[Suzy]

Wow, who knew about that halo .
I've heard much about this PN as it seems to be a visual observing challenge and I tried myself many times and gave up. I see now why my light polluted skies & 10" dob did me no favours. Finding out about that halo is just simply awesome. Please, please go back out there & collect more data! And thank you also for image by Don Goldman, what a knockout! This has been such an education .

edit: Ooops I forgot to add: This DSO is the sole discovery by Sydney astronomer, Walter Gale. Gale crater which Curiosity rover explored on Mars was named after him as he observed & did drawings of Mars & found a number of surface features. Gale also discovered comets but this was his one & only deep sky object.
So it is a rather little special nebula for me. If I could ever get see it grrrrr...! At the time of Cuirosity landing on Mars, I observed Mars that that day & also tried the whole night to find this.
Again Rick, thank you for this.

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks for the kind comments, Suzy. I have collected a few more hours on it and will keep at it while the weather is good. The good news is that it's still a late object and there's plenty of time left to chase it this year. I'll post the results here, eventually...

Cheers,
Rick.