M77 and friends

alocky (Andrew lockwood) · #1 12-10-2016, 12:15 AM

First clear night since I moved into my new house and have the luxury of being able to use the observatory.
I'm still waiting for the larger OTA, and until it arrives I'm doing some experimentation with the 10" f4.5 to see how deep I can get from less then 10km from the CBD. This is an LRGB of 16x5minute subs for each filter of M77, NGC 1072 and NGC 1055, plus a few < mag 16 faint fuzzies.
Link to higher res image here, but it looks like the seeing was not great.

http://www.astrobin.com/267892/

Atmos (Colin) · #2 13-10-2016, 12:12 AM

Nice amount of detail showing in the two main galaxies, well done

alocky (Andrew lockwood) · #3 13-10-2016, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Atmos

Nice amount of detail showing in the two main galaxies, well done

Thanks Colin,
I thought it was a bit soft, and that shouldn't happen with SGPro refocusing every 45min or so - but just went and checked tonight and the focuser was slipping in the 'out' direction, so I'll try again tonight and hopefully get a sharper image!

topheart · #4 13-10-2016, 12:07 PM

Hi Andrew,
Nice one.
Congratulations re moving in to your new observatory /house!
Regards,
Tim

alocky (Andrew lockwood) · #5 13-10-2016, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by topheart

Hi Andrew,
Nice one.
Congratulations re moving in to your new observatory /house!
Regards,
Tim

Thanks Tim. I'm really looking forward to getting this mount delivering what it's capable of. Right now I'm still using an autoguider with no model, but when my 16" arrives (it's been a very long wait while they replace the primary!) I'll get it all properly setup.
My wife thinks it's a house, but in reality it's a fancy support structure for an observatory.
Cheers
Andrew.

RickS (Rick) · #6 22-10-2016, 10:18 PM

Congrats on the new house/obsy, Andrew

Nice image too. Look forward to what you can produce with a 16: aperture!