Rival to Mars - first light for Mount Glasgow Observatory

[gregbradley]

A fantastic first light image Phil. Congrats on the new observatory.

Greg.

[topheart]

Hi Phil,
An awesome composition.

Very well done!

I wish you all the best with your observatory and look forward to the output from it.

Regards,
Tim

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah that's a cracker Phil ...you've done this area a few times now, haven't you?...I'm yet to have a go but hopefully that will change for next years appearance

Mike

[Phil Hart]

Originally Posted by Kunama

Great work Phil, looking forward to more images from Mt Glasgow.
Tried the FSQ yet?

Not yet but hopefully very soon!

Originally Posted by lazjen

Very nice image.

As for a name, you could switch it around for Observatory Mount Glasgow and abbreviate: OMG.

hmm.. OMG is a good one.. but then I'd end up saying OMG Observatory but I hate tautology

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah that's a cracker Phil ...you've done this area a few times now, haven't you?...I'm yet to have a go but hopefully that will change for next years appearance

Mike

You're not wrong.. you could easily have said "I haven't done anything but this region"! With Mars there I couldn't resist.. and I'll probably still be coming back to it. Hopefully will branch out soon

Phil

[Ross G]

A beautiful wide photo Phil....love the composition.

Rich colours and very sharp.

I like the diffraction spikes. What f stop did you use?

Ross.

[Phil Hart]

Originally Posted by Ross G

A beautiful wide photo Phil....love the composition.

Rich colours and very sharp.

I like the diffraction spikes. What f stop did you use?

Ross.

oops.. forgot to include that in the details. It was shot at f5.. but as in an earlier comment I have a problem with the lens at the moment. In the past I would have used it at f3.5 but had to stop down to reduce some issues due to tilt (lens has been bumped/damaged at some point). So f5 has accentuated the diffraction spikes.

Phil

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Beautiful colours there Phil and nicely composed.
Geoff

[astronobob (Bob)]

Fantastical beautiful colours