A quickie from last night

[multiweb (Marc)]

Full moon but still in the right part of the sky. Decent seeing but most importantly the only clear night this week. Coming week-end doesn't look to hot...

22x10min - 90mm APO F/6.7 - QHY9 - Baader Ha 7nm
Bigger one here. [1.5MB]

Changed my RA worm and had to polar align again after my trip back from the house so might as well snap something bright while testing.

[Ross G]

Hi Marc,

An excellent monochrome photo.

Sharp and so much detail.

Again, I love the tones.

Ross.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice work Marc,
can you fire over some of that good weather you've been having? - i can't remember what a star looks like ...

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Marc,

An excellent monochrome photo.

Sharp and so much detail.

Again, I love the tones.

Ross.

Thanks Ross. Turned out alright.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

nice work Marc,
can you fire over some of that good weather you've been having? - i can't remember what a star looks like ...

Thanks mate. Good weather? You gotta say it quick. It's raining and windy right now and it wasn't much better yesterday but there was a small window last night to squeeze in.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Great image Marc. Which replacement worm did you go for?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Great image Marc. Which replacement worm did you go for?

Thanks Peter. I have the Losmandy block. I just changed the brass worm inside for a new one.

[dvj (John)]

Very sharp. Great dynamic range in the processing too!

jg

[ourkind (Carlos)]

That very nice Marc, good to see you can still get more than decent images on a full moon!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by dvj

Very sharp. Great dynamic range in the processing too!

jg

Thanks a lot John.

Originally Posted by ourkind

That very nice Marc, good to see you can still get more than decent images on a full moon!

Thanks Carlos. You can still get decent results in Ha provided the full moon is far enough. Too close and you will have stary light, possibly reflections and gradients as a result. Phases are not an issue because the light is to faint to affect your pics. Obviously no moon and dark skies will boost your contrast. That's true for NB too.

[Paul Haese]

Nice contrast Marc. Composition is nice too. I have been using m17 for automation testing imaging for the last couple of weeks to iron out any bugs. Your filter being narrower produces much nicer contrast than I have been getting. That is about to change though with a 5nm on the way. I also like the smoothness of your image here too. Would love to see this in an RGB or narrowband image.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice contrast Marc. Composition is nice too. I have been using m17 for automation testing imaging for the last couple of weeks to iron out any bugs. Your filter being narrower produces much nicer contrast than I have been getting. That is about to change though with a 5nm on the way. I also like the smoothness of your image here too. Would love to see this in an RGB or narrowband image.

Thanks Paul. Yeah this one is a very nice object in narrowband. I find it a difficult customer in color. Actually one of the best color shot I've seen on it was yours posted here a couple of months ago.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Geez Marc, your images make me drool.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Lovely one Marc, I like the Ha images you are producing lately

Clear skies
Marco

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by nebulosity.

Geez Marc, your images make me drool.

Originally Posted by marco

Lovely one Marc, I like the Ha images you are producing lately

Clear skies
Marco

Thank you very much guys.

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice, Marc! An excellent test image

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Whole new perspective for me on M17, So much nebulosity!!

Nice work Marc!

Cheers,

Justin.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Marc! An excellent test image

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Whole new perspective for me on M17, So much nebulosity!!

Nice work Marc!

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks guys.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Yeah, nice "quickie" Marc; interesting to see M17 in Ha only.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Yeah, nice "quickie" Marc; interesting to see M17 in Ha only.

Thankd David. I'm surprised you haven't hammered that one with your newt yet. That's a perfect FOV for it.