Vela

[Peter Ward]

Like most of the country I'm stuck in COVID lockdown (and unlike most of the the country fully COVID vaccinated...
but we'll leave discussion on asinine policy for another time)....anyway...a good excuse to tinker with old data.

The link is here

Hope you enjoy the view.

[alpal]

Excellent Peter.
Thanks for posting that.


cheers
Allan

[AdamJL]

Oh good grief this is beautiful. Really stunning work, just perfection

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

fantastic as usual - plenty of detail there and great colour.

cheers

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

fantastic as usual - plenty of detail there and great colour.

cheers

Originally Posted by AdamJL

Oh good grief this is beautiful. Really stunning work, just perfection

Originally Posted by alpal

Excellent Peter.
Thanks for posting that.


cheers
Allan

Very kind comments.

This was taken earlier in the year with a very similar rig to Greg's recent excellent Sag-triplet image.

That focal length seems to work well with the IMX455 pixel sizes....but I am about to take my AP155 out of mothballs to see what the QHY600M can do with a bit more aperture.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Oh yes! Roolly Roolly good! That ALMOST makes me want to do wide field woosey work! (not really)

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Colours galore! Nice

[JA]

Superb image colour and fine detail

Best
JA

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Colours galore! Nice

I like to be inclusive...

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Oh yes! Roolly Roolly good! That ALMOST makes me want to do wide field woosey work! (not really)

LOL. indeed it's not exactly difficult to get perfect stars at 500mm or so.

BTW a pox on your dark skies...they shouldn't be allowed...

But assuming dark skies are actually useful, I now have a new "portable" mount!

It arrived last week from some small, probably, tin-pot company in Illinois, USA. (see attached)...who did offer some nice steak knives with the deal.

Apparently with perfect tracking due fancy optical encoders...(yeah, sure )

It might entice me to go west in search of similar poxy skies

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

A superb Vela SNR Peter to be sure. With your new mount you could travel to dark skies and get even more data in this object

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

A superb Vela SNR Peter to be sure. With your new mount you could travel to dark skies and get even more data in this object

Ah..yes...travel...

Even if you are fully vaccinated in the land of Oz 'tis but a dream.

(You might guess... I am upset with state of affairs and lack of agitation
from the Hoi-Polloi in Oz who are clearly not understanding the need to get into the faces of our politicians if they want reasonable freedoms to travel)

[gregbradley]

Very spectacular. Vibrant colours and great detail with that wonderful wide view.

Congrats on your Mach 2. An ideal companion for the 130.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very spectacular. Vibrant colours and great detail with that wonderful wide view.

Congrats on your Mach 2. An ideal companion for the 130.

Greg.

Ta Greg. BTW that's my AP155 with 4" focuser on the Mach2...the mount
was seriously heavier than I expected!

[Startrek (Martin)]

Peter,
A beautiful image !
Depth , contrast and colours spectacular
Just interested in integration times ?
Martin

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by Startrek

Peter,
A beautiful image !
Depth , contrast and colours spectacular
Just interested in integration times ?
Martin

Ta Martin. 120 Mins H-alpha120 minutes OIII 45 minutes RGB (stars)

..and from southern Sydney....Bortle ? Who cares!

[AdamJL]

wait... 45 each for colour or for the lot? Either way... that's very little time on this structure. Very impressed. What an amazing sensor this camera has.

[vlazg (George)]

BTW that's my AP155 with 4" focuser on the Mach2...the mount
was seriously heavier than I expected![/QUOTE]

I can see where the house renovation money went.

Beautiful image Peter

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Nice image, nice new toys too!

BTW are the star haloes intentional?
I'm curious as this is a look I've been intrigued by lately

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by Andy01

Nice image, nice new toys too!

BTW are the star haloes intentional?
I'm curious as this is a look I've been intrigued by lately

Thanks Andy. I used a Baader NB set at the time which do indeed kick out halos. These have been recently replaced by AstroDons...hence a re-shoot will probably take place next year.

Originally Posted by vlazg

BTW that's my AP155 with 4" focuser on the Mach2...the mount
was seriously heavier than I expected!

I can see where the house renovation money went.

Beautiful image Peter[/QUOTE]

Ah, yes, the lovely home Reno backdrop...it's been going on for weeks...also makes the cost of my toys look like chump change...but hopefully will be finally complete by the month's end.

Originally Posted by AdamJL

wait... 45 each for colour or for the lot? Either way... that's very little time on this structure. Very impressed. What an amazing sensor this camera has.

15 minutes each colour was all that was needed to get reasonable star colours.