Oh wow! Now I know why I don't even bother to try with anything longer than a monochrome 30 second image..ok lots of them.
As usual Mike your images have that extra something that makes them well, just awesome. Congrats.
PeterM
Oh wow! Now I know why I don't even bother to try with anything longer than a monochrome 30 second image..ok lots of them.
As usual Mike your images have that extra something that makes them well, just awesome. Congrats.
PeterM
Extra something hey...? It's the Parmigiano-Reggiano
30 sec to discover a SN?.. worthwhile investment if you pull it off I recon
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Originally Posted by alpal
That's a fantastic result Mike.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Leo, yes really long exposures are not necessary with this scope to get solid image results... of course longer ones will go even deeper and I will do some eventually, the longest I have gone so far from my new dark sky is just 3hrs of Lum....I can only imagine what 20hrs would show
Thanks a lot Mike! I mean, first of all, your wide field is inspirational. I've just starred at it for very long times wondering if I could get such a wonderful photo by stitching together a bunch of frames! Now I have a bad case of aperture and field of view fever! (Never mind dark sky fever....)
A great looking galaxy photo Mike and a great SN capture.
...love the observatory!
Ross.
...yeh it's an invisible one
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Originally Posted by PRejto
Thanks a lot Mike! I mean, first of all, your wide field is inspirational. I've just starred at it for very long times wondering if I could get such a wonderful photo by stitching together a bunch of frames! Now I have a bad case of aperture and field of view fever! (Never mind dark sky fever....)
Thanks Peter and I'm really glad you enjoyed the full frame view, I like this too, I love galaxy surfing.
Ahhh Mike, what a lovely field of view, isn't it?
A great great image this one, amazing deep with a fraction of the exposure I had on mine and some very fine details visible with the extra plus of the tiny sn on ngc 1365.. definitely a fantastic picture
Can't see what you are going to produce with a dome to protect your scope from the wind but be aware that having a fixed observatory is the first step toward a total astrophotography laziness
Ahhh Mike, what a lovely field of view, isn't it?
A great great image this one, amazing deep with a fraction of the exposure I had on mine and some very fine details visible with the extra plus of the tiny sn on ngc 1365.. definitely a fantastic picture
Can't see what you are going to produce with a dome to protect your scope from the wind but be aware that having a fixed observatory is the first step toward a total astrophotography laziness
Ciao
Marco
Ha ha, yes, dark skies, 12" at F3.8 and with a bit of QE in the camera and going deep is much easier..still having to set up half my gear each session, this does make life easier = very deep LRGB images in a single clear night rather than several
The dome will prevent the wind being an issue and make more nights useable..of course the dome can produce its own local seeing effects too so I will have to see what happens there.
Awesome images there Mike. Congrats on the captures 
...yeh it's an invisible one 
