Just next door

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Both subject and site look fantastic

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Thanks Simon, Dunk, and Allan.
Allan,

I will sort out a link to a high res and Ha soon and post it here.
Cheers,
Tim

[dvj (John)]

Wow, that's superb!

[jase (Jason)]

Good to see an image from you Tim. Judging from your web site updates, one could conclude you're not imaging anymore. I'm pleased this is not the case. Fantastic image of this area. Would be good to see a high res image in order to suggest any improvements (if any). Don't be shy mate, keep on posting here.

I hope your 20" keller is happier under those pristine dark skies too. I'd imagine the seeing would have improved compared thick as pea soup humidity of cairns.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Greeeat setup there Tim ...looks like heaven, what's the wet season like? Great image too

Mike

[SpaceNoob (Chris)]

Great image, there's a lot going on in this one. As Allan has said, Ha view would be very interesting. Keep em coming!

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Originally Posted by jase

Good to see an image from you Tim. Judging from your web site updates, one could conclude you're not imaging anymore. I'm pleased this is not the case. Fantastic image of this area. Would be good to see a high res image in order to suggest any improvements (if any). Don't be shy mate, keep on posting here.

I hope your 20" keller is happier under those pristine dark skies too. I'd imagine the seeing would have improved compared thick as pea soup humidity of cairns.

Hi Jase,

Thanks very much. Yes, I have been very busy on all fronts in the last few years, but I have now setup and organised all the facilities at "Savannah Skies" and I have been gathering huge amounts of data in the last 18 months or so from out there, which I have only lately had time to organise and process to some degree. We have also been doing a lot of scientific work - occultations of Pluto and Sedna for MIT/Princeton Uni etc and a lot of supernova work.

I will soon tag a Savannah Skies website page to the astrophoto.com.au site. The poor old "Jewel Box Observatory" hasn't seen much use with terrible weather throughout the years in Cairns lately. I do have plans to truck it and re-establish it next to the 4 domes at Savannah Skies.

The Keller 20 inch sits very proudly now on a bent equatorial pier on a ASA DDM85Premium mount in one of the 3.5m domes at Savannah Skies. It is very happy indeed! FWHM's at SS very good.

A full res tif file can be downloaded here ( very big file though):
https://www.sendspace.com/file/4bntwa
It is a HaLHaRGB image even though it is mislabelled LRGB.

The raw mean Ha file is here with nil processing applied: (also a big file)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6ud1v2

Thanks,
Tim

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Greeeat setup there Tim ...looks like heaven, what's the wet season like? Great image too

Mike

Thanks Mike!

The wet season - Ahhh! A chance to process data!

It is generally wet.....but not that wet out at Savannah Skies, but often cloudy between December and March....hot ....39deg in the day in this period....also fairly frequent, but spectacular lightning storms.....we have designed to dome compound to be a "Faraday cage" and have fibre -optic network cable routed under ground between the domes to try and reduce the lightning risks.

Cheers,
Tim

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Originally Posted by SpaceNoob

Great image, there's a lot going on in this one. As Allan has said, Ha view would be very interesting. Keep em coming!

Thanks Chris.....OK , I do have a bunch of images processed recently....Will soon post to learn from you all.
Cheers,
Tim

[alpal]

Originally Posted by topheart

Hi Jase,


A full res tif file can be downloaded here ( very big file though):
https://www.sendspace.com/file/4bntwa
It is a HaLHaRGB image even though it is mislabelled LRGB.

The raw mean Ha file is here with nil processing applied: (also a big file)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6ud1v2

Thanks,
Tim

Hi Tim,
Thanks for those links,
the images stand up well at full res.

cheers
Allan

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Thanks Allan!

[RickS (Rick)]

Very cool, Tim!

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Thanks Rick!

Cheers,
Tim