LDN673 and Ngc6914

[petershah (Peter Shah)]

We have had some clear skies recently in the UK although clear we only get about 2-3 hours of darkish skies, I say darkish because it doesn't really get dark this time of year, so we take what we're given.....

I've been working on getting the automation working I think I have ironed out most of the bugs and it all seems to be running pretty smoothly....This shot of Ngc6914 in Cygnus was done over two nights grabbing bits of data. A couple of moments of haze scrapped a frame or two and poor balance scrapped another after a meridian flip. All sorted now the automation is tweaked and ready to go for the season. I managed to get some sleep too! Exposure times were 5x1200s in Red 5x1060s in Blue and 4x840s in Green.

Exposure times for LDN673 were 5x600s in Red, 5x420s in Green and 5x530s in Blue, unfortunately the blue frames were taken after the mount performed a meridian flip and the mount was out of balance so the star shape in the blue frames were not perfect.

Thanks for looking
Peter Shah

[atalas]

Very fine work on both Peter!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Two lovely shots of two very different objects Peter, great colour!

Some long subs there too

Automation huh?...that would be nice

Mike

[astronobob (Bob)]

Very coool

[jase (Jason)]

Both remarkable images, Peter. NGC6914 is my pick of the two. The contrasting Ha and reflection nebulosity is a real treat to view. Would be great to see a larger version. Well done.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Really like the second one. Those little blue reflection bits on the edge of the Ha are pretty cool.

[petershah (Peter Shah)]

Many thanks for you comments everyone......
the signal is a little weak as the sky was slightly hazy, I might grab some H-alpha frames for it if the weather holds out.

Jase I cant easily upload a bigger version here is a crop showing the centre detail http://www.astropix.co.uk/ps/pages/a0935.htm if you want to have a look I can send it to you.


Mike I've started doing 30min subs too ;-)

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Gosh that looks great..the crop showing central detail.