The Horsehead (!) imaged with an ETX 70!

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Folks

I am rather pleased to have been able to finally (!) capture the Horsehead with an ETX 70..been trying for years

imaged last night
stack of 25 thirty second images
ETX in polar alignment on a home made wedge
Processed in photoshop
I had to shot with the camera binned 2 x 2 so its only a B and W image unfortunately and image scale is small

But I'm just chuffed to actually capture this most elusive object with my little ETX 70...a scope that costs less than a H beta filter

comments and suggestions welcome

PS Did I mention I am pleased ?

[sheeny (Al)]

Well done!!! That scope's not on any performance enhancing drugs is it?

Al.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Now that is fully (really) sic (fantastic beyond words), Narayan.

Don't you know you are not supposed to be able to do that?????? Only "pleased"? You mean you aren't doing a quiet little dance atm



Was that taken with the Orion or the ATiK?

[Garyh]

Good goin..perfect night to catch the horse...done it myself last night too I was too tired to go on!! .mind you shes facing the other way to yours..lol
Cheers Gary.

[ving (David)]

ditto narayan!
well done

[stephenmcnelley]

Bugger me that is great, love it when people prove what a scope is capable of with skill and the right conditions.
Maybe i should buy an ETX 90 thats on offer down the road.

[Ric]

Top imaging Seeker, I thought I heard some yelling over the hills to the north, it must have been you annoucing it on the roof tops

great stuff, well done.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

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Was that taken with the Orion or the ATiK?[/QUOTE]

It was the Orion Star Shoot, Paul

It really is a very snsitive camera, if only the chip was not so small

Narayan

[Lee]

Awesome stuff..... might give it a crack with my 80mm and DSI tonight.... jinxed it now!

[Mick (Michael)]

That's just amazing!

[spearo (Frank)]

well done!
I think you've captured the horsey running away!
:]
frank

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

Brilliant, unbelievable! That is amazing, Narayan. I hope you've sent that off to Weasner's ETX site. Send it to Meade, too, and they might give you a special commendation!

Cheers,

Brian.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Great work Narayan

Now..... should I challenge myself to get the even smaller ETX-60 to do the same? It's only 10mm aperture difference.... and a bit of skill (quite a bit)......... and patience....... and....

[astronut (John)]

Excellent Narayan I spent most of my night trying to see the Horse through the 12". The sky was great and dark, but all I could see was IC434, but the horse eluded me.

[iceman (Mike)]

Well done Narayan! A great image!

[stephenmcnelley]

Seeker, might you give any hints about any possible filters that were used with the ETX for that image?

[atalas]

Nice work Narayan....and with a broken ETX as well .

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Originally Posted by stephenmcnelley

Seeker, might you give any hints about any possible filters that were used with the ETX for that image?

The only filters I used were the usual -an IR filter and a minus Violet filter.

This is after all a short tube achromat so the stra bloat without these filters can be severe

so the total system onsisted of an out- of-the box ETX 70 on a home made wedge with these two filters and an Orion Starshoot DeepSpace Imager-from a Western Sydney-read light polluted backyard

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Originally Posted by atalas

..and with a broken ETX as well .

fingers crossed maybe it ain't broken after all

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

Great work Narayan

Now..... should I challenge myself to get the even smaller ETX-60 to do the same? It's only 10mm aperture difference.... and a bit of skill (quite a bit)......... and patience....... and....

John Graham over at Cloudy Nights has done some really good work with an ETX 60

Must get it equitorially mounted though. I use a home made wooden wedge. John Graham uses an old EQ mount that he modified for his ETX 60

give it a go