I'm still half way through the "WoW" from seeing that H Aphla? wide FOV shot of the Milky way you had for sale at AstroFest, it'll look great on my wall at home when I get some extra dollars to throw at you for apersonal copy
Thanks Rob, It was good to catch up with you at Astrofest, though I have to admit the first time we talked I had no idea who you were! That happened to me a bit that week. I didn't realise who most of the Icers were until the group photo!
How's the little number 27? He's a cool kid.
Let me know if you want to order a Milky Way, might be able to do you an post-Astrofest deal. They're too expensive for me to print stock, so they get printed on demand, i.e. for each order.
I was in the same boat, Although I had heard of you before I didn't know you were an IIS member. Maybe we should organise more IIS t-shirts so when we turn up to this gig's members will see who are IIS'ers
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How's the little number 27? He's a cool kid.
He's doing fine!! he caught a lil conjunctive-itist from a sand throwing incident. Had to take him to the doc's to get some of it removed. but he's back running around like a madman now as usual
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Let me know if you want to order a Milky Way, might be able to do you an post-Astrofest deal. They're too expensive for me to print stock, so they get printed on demand, i.e. for each order.
I'm definitely keen, cant see me being able to do anything until Tueday next week. If you could PM me the details that would be great
Would anyone really be interested in what I can see through a 60mm refractor I bought off Ebay?
I don't think so. Unless it is to compare how much better the view is through a bigger better scope. LOL
I'll lurk here and learn off you talented people in the mean time.
Actually some newbies might benefit from such info. From your parts of the woods, a 60mm "no name" telescope can still be pretty effective. I think it is safe to say that 5189 "will" be visible in the 60 I used to observe with a 40mm Celestron Cometron back in the early 80's and still saw heaps
Would anyone really be interested in what I can see through a 60mm refractor I bought off Ebay?
I don't think so. Unless it is to compare how much better the view is through a bigger better scope. LOL
I'll lurk here and learn off you talented people in the mean time.
Hey jjjnettie,
Maybe I should sent my 60mm tasco you could wire them both together like a pair of binoc'
This is my effort on NGC 5189 tonight....yes I know the full moon is out but I dont care...this is so much fun.
I have not been using the goto on my skyscan as of late....I have been spending my time actually finding the object by browsing starry nights and constinently looking through my ED 80...this 1 took me about 30 minutes just to find...slippery little sucker....I eventually resorted to taken images in the approximate area just to find it.....lol
I must say its been rewarding doing it this way....I would never have seen it visualy.
C11 F10 FL 2800 SCT Prime focus 5 x 1600 ISO + 5 x 800 ISO all 30 second exposures stacked with K3CCDTools...touched up and resized.
Details Tony. Details. How many images, ISO, etc. Nice clean shot and your mount looks like its tracking well even if it is a short shot. Good colour in the background stars, especially the yellow to red ranges
Nice shot Tony ...seems the full moon is no problem for imaging ?
I just had a look at the moon instead !
I still feel like a possum stunned by headlights, even with a filter !
Nope no noise reduction or dark frame subtraction.........I just worked out how to operate the camera from my PC..only problem is you cant control the camera under BULB fuction from my PC.... meaning I can only control it for eg...under set exposure times up to 30 seconds...as soon as I turn the Shutter lock on it also disables my control.....so for each of these images I am surprised they dont have much movement from the shutter vibration....does this make sense.
Spurred on by Tony's efforts without GOTO (great to see!) I decided to give my sketch of 5189 the digital camera treatment. I had been trying for the last week to get some time on the scanner at work, but just never got around to it. So instead I took a photo of (a trick from Pendak Ken) and generated the negative in Irfanview. No other processing
The sketch was made on the Saturday night at Astrofest through my 12.5" dob using a 13mm T6 Nagler. The field was larger than what is shown, but I cheated and just sketched the object and surrounding stars. Darren (dhumpie) can attest to the details in the sketch being visible at the eyepiece.
Sky conditions from memory - seeing was fair (maybe a 6/10) and the transperancy was great (maybe 8/10).
rough round the edges Eddie ! you'll have to do better next time dude. 
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