October Imaging Challenge

[JohnH]

This little sucker finally got above the trees on a moonless night for me...10x3 mins at iso 1600 using the Canon20d at prime on the VC200L...not too happy with it, I had to push pretty hard, I need more photons...

[tornado33]

Heres my effort. Its the longest galaxy imaging session Ive ever done, a whopping 115 mins. Skies got surprisingly dark for Newcastle so I kept on going.
10 inch F5.6 Newtonian, 23x5 mins ISO 400, uv/ir filter used on modded 350D, processed in Iris, including colour and dynamuc stretching, then masking in Photoshop. Noiseware also used.
Larger version here http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads...ilteredbig.jpg
Scott

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Hello everyone,
Congratulations to all of you that chased down NGC 1097 with your astro-imaging rigs. All of you presented fine photos - well done.
The poor weather contributed to not capturing NGC 1097 myself but you can see an older image I did about a year ago with astandard Canon 300D (not modified) at this link;
http://www.skylab.com.au/pmsa/ngc%201097b.html
Now to next month's challenge. For the November Deep Sky Challenge I would like to nominate rogerg (I hope you haven't been nominated recently?)
rogerg come on down... your next month's guest to select the deep sky object for the November 2006 Deep Sky Challenge.best regards and clear skies Paul Mayo
PS. Not sure what is going on with the text editor on IIS - keeps removing paragraph spacing so you end up with a mess of text - sorry.

[Ric]

Great image Scott and the colour and detail really stands out.
NGC1097 was very shy for me, it has parked itself behind a tree and will not come out. It may be time for some stealth pruning in the middle of the night.

Cheers

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by PhotonCollector

Now to next month's challenge. For the November Deep Sky Challenge I would like to nominate rogerg (I hope you haven't been nominated recently?)

Ahh... excellent, I think picking the object will be harder than photographing it I will take a look and seeh what I can find in the next couple of days. Hmmmmm... decisions decisions. Well it'll have to be a galaxy or collection of.....

(and no, haven't been nominated ever..)

Roger.

[tornado33]

Thanks. The Colour Stretch function in IRIS is great for bringing out galaxy colours.
I eagerly await Rogerg's descision for November

[Ric]

Hi all, I finally managed to get an image in for the challenge, a bit late but I did take it in October
It's a bit rough and over cooked, but overall not toooo bad
It is composed of
10 images in luminescence @ 21 seconds each
Processed in MaximDL

cheers