Couple of carbon stars

Liz · #1 18-02-2009, 12:28 PM

Tried to spot these in scope, but toooooo hot and muggy.... sweat pouring off me, and couldnt concentrate with telescope, through which everything was blurry

Was hoping to see R Leporis, and W Orionis, but got them in a photo anyway.

Also tried to catch Mercury, Jupiter and Mars, early this am ... but clouds lurking in that area, mangaged a couple pics, but focus off a bit ...grrrr.
Jupiter and Mars were very close together, with Mercury up above.
Was a beautiful sight anyway.

Quark (Trevor) · #2 18-02-2009, 01:45 PM

Well done Liz,

Very nice images, the colour really shows out with the carbon stars, top stuff.

Regards
Trevor

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #3 18-02-2009, 07:50 PM

Well done there Liz.

I also agree that the colour seems to stand out clearly fore the Carbon Stars.

Nice image.

Geoffro.

Merlin66 (Ken) · #4 18-02-2009, 09:51 PM

Liz,
Don't know the exposure for your photo/ image, but it looks very interesting on my screen.... there appears to be numerous dark "bands" just north of Sirius and a neat "dark feature" along an edge between YY and S Lepus.
Just checked Uranometria (map 154) and it shows this area to be devoid of any stars above 9.7mag.
Does anyone else see these dark areas??????

Liz · #5 19-02-2009, 04:16 AM

Thankyou Trevor and Geoff, they are certainly reddies.
Merlin - i dont know, I can see some darkness near S Lepus, and a few dark lanes scattered here and there, though not particularly north of Sirius.
The lens for those was a Sigma 17-70/f 2.8. 30 sec at 2.8.ISO 1600.
Here is another from that night, and one from tonight.
I had changed white balance from shade to tungsten.

RobF (Rob) · #6 23-02-2009, 09:41 PM

They look pretty nice to me Liz!
Like your new signature thingy too.....