OMGega Centauri

[Atmos (Colin)]

Had a nice Saturday night a week or so ago, camped in the new tent and braved the cold.... Along with the cold was some pretty darn good seeing too. This is now equal sharpest stacked data I've been able to capture, 26 minutes under 1.1" seeing. Collimation is slightly off but it isn't really noticeable (is noticeable on individual subs).

Link to 0.4"/pixel resolution

Pretty happy with the performance of the ol' Mewlon 250 so far, seems to be a good match with the ASI094 when the skies play nice.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Brilliant Colin. The 1.1” seeing really shows.
Geoff

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's excellent Colin. The core looks like a hubble shot up close with all those little blue stars. Really fine.

[gregbradley]

Sensational Colin. Look at how well those core stars are resolved. Wow, that is sharp.

Greg.

[JA]

They're all there. Well done on an excellent image Colin

Best
JA

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Brilliant Colin. The 1.1” seeing really shows.
Geoff

I’ve attempted this globular with most of my previous telescopes and never been able to get close to what the Mewlon has been able to do!

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's excellent Colin. The core looks like a hubble shot up close with all those little blue stars. Really fine.

Thanks Marc, haven’t quite been game to compare it against Hubble

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Sensational Colin. Look at how well those core stars are resolved. Wow, that is sharp.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, it wasn’t until I compared it against a Chart-32 image that I realised just HOW GOOD their seeing is! 32” aperture helps too

Originally Posted by JA

They're all there. Well done on an excellent image Colin

Best
JA

Thanks JA

[PKay (Peter)]

Anyone spot the 3 red stars? (at about 4oclock)

Good capture Colin

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Hey Col, Nice work!
Can you (in layman's terms) explain the most relevant numbers table in the second photo?

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Andy01

Hey Col, Nice work!
Can you (in layman's terms) explain the most relevant numbers table in the second photo?

He is imaging at an image scale of 0.4"/pix, his software is telling him the max FWHM (of that star with square around it) in the x direction, is 2.94pix, so we have 2.94 X 0.4 = 1.176" and a FWHM in the y direction of 2.58pix or 2.58 X 0.4 = 1.032" so suggests, essentially pretty close to 1 arc sec seeing...very cool

Great shot Col

Mike

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by Andy01

Hey Col, Nice work!
Can you (in layman's terms) explain the most relevant numbers table in the second photo?

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

He is imaging at an image scale of 0.4"/pix, his software is telling him the max FWHM (of that star with square around it) in the x direction, is 2.94pix, so we have 2.94 X 0.4 = 1.176" and a FWHM in the y direction of 2.58pix or 2.58 X 0.4 = 1.032" so suggests, essentially pretty close to 1 arc sec seeing...very cool

Great shot Col

Mike

Mike got it in one. The highlighted numbers are the reference stars and the box says that the average of 6 stars have a diameter of approx 2.7 pixels at 0.4"/pixel or about 1.1" seeing.

[markas (Mark)]

Spectacular resolution! ~1" seeing in this part of the world is very unusual.
As good as it gets - the seeing and the image. Very nicely rendered
Mark

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

He is imaging at an image scale of 0.4"/pix, his software is telling him the max FWHM (of that star with square around it) in the x direction, is 2.94pix, so we have 2.94 X 0.4 = 1.176" and a FWHM in the y direction of 2.58pix or 2.58 X 0.4 = 1.032" so suggests, essentially pretty close to 1 arc sec seeing...very cool

Great shot Col

Mike

Originally Posted by Atmos

Mike got it in one. The highlighted numbers are the reference stars and the box says that the average of 6 stars have a diameter of approx 2.7 pixels at 0.4"/pixel or about 1.1" seeing.

Cool, that makes sense now, cheers Mike & Col

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Pretty happy with the performance of the ol' Mewlon 250 so far, seems to be a good match with the ASI094 when the skies play nice.

I’m assuming the ASI094 is a colour camera ?….. this image is super sharp and crispy. Who needs a mono camera when you can do this.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

I’m assuming the ASI094 is a colour camera ?….. this image is super sharp and crispy. Who needs a mono camera when you can do this.

Taken with a OSC! At the end of the day... seeing is King over all of us!