I Promised myself I wouldn't do it.....

[DavidU (Dave)]

I just had a look at this on my big monitor, well worth it.
It's a fabulous image Brendan.

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

Thankyou for the comments Steve and Dave Incredible Perth seeing did its work i believe looked at the data though CCDIS last night and the FWHM was well down for the RGB it was 1.5-2 and for the L it was 2.5-3 the lower fwhm i can attribute to 2x2 in RGB but for L thats raw! we have to remember that this is coming out of a bog stock chinese mirror not a custom hand ground and figured one. mmm i have my sights set!

Me and a few imaging friends are heading out to a site where the sky regularly reaches 21.5 SQM and beyond so here is hoping that i get some windless beautiful seeing evenings!

[gregbradley]

What's SQM?

Greg.

[Ross G]

A beautiful HorseHead photo Brendan.

Great colour and so sharp.

The Horse Head is one object that I could never get tired of imaging. I look forward to it every year.


Ross.

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

Thanks Ross, it i think was just one of those periods of the morning that the skies settle down and everything is just right and you get brilliant clarity! If only I had high end equipment it would have been twice that what it is

Greg

Sky Quality Meter its a measure of the darkness or lightness of your skies in a logrithmic scale in magnitudes per arc second ^2. My house normally sits somewhere between 20.5 and 20.6 which allows me to do 15 minute Luminance without noticing the light pollution really. at 20.2-.3 at 15 minutes im starting to notice a bit of light pollution, by the time your hitting 20.0. its limiting to somewhere about 8 minutes Less than that, your just shooting the breeze for fun.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by bmitchell82

But i did it was midnight, and the photo i was hunting was in the wrong part of the sky, so i did it i took a photo of the Horse head nebula.

1hr 45 min total of data

15min L @ 1x1
10min RGB @ 2x2
-25 Deg C QHY9
254 AG + OAG riding apon the white..... Stallion he he he

Here

Brendan

There is a lot going on in this image Brendan, as soon as you can add some exposure (and I am sure you will soon) this is going to be indeed a great picture of the horsehead

Marco

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

Thanks Marco,

It seems I possibly wont get much time in before i leave back home for a few weeks that and the moon will get in my way

Brendan

[5ash (Philip)]

Fantastic image , love the colours and in particular the detail in the nebulosity around the bottom star. Cracker of a picture well done
Philip