M104 - 40d & C9.25

[Tamtarn]

New data at last first since Oct 08 !!!

Reasonably happy with this one. More detail within the galaxy using the C9.25 compared with the 8" Newt.

Details

Celestron C9.25 at 1500 focal length ..... Cropped by 30%
Canon 40D unmodded

Total exposure 2hrs 27min
21 lights and 15 darks all 7min exp
Processed PSC2

Larger file http://barb.david.1.googlepages.com/

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent job of the Sombrero guys

Some nice vivid colours

Mike

[atalas]

Great job guy's! sharp and sweet.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Barb and David,

Excellent, excellent work. I can make out the faint detail in the ring.

Look forward to more.

Regards,
Humayun

[aworley (Alex)]

Barb and David,

Great shot.....

Alex

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very nice guys. Sharp details.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Mike Louie Humayun and Alex.

We had clear skies down here last weekend and had three good sessions so we have another four objects to process

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Great Sombrero Barb and David. Some good detail in the dust lane.

Peter

[Lester]

Very nice image with lots of detail, well done Barb and David.

Its good to see some more of your DSO images after many months.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for your comments Marc and Peter

Originally Posted by Lester

Its good to see some more of your DSO images after many months.

It's been 5 months Lester. The delay due to firstly our gear dismantled installing our pier and David starting our ROR obs. Then Christmas -cloud-moon-bushfires - it seemed we would never get out again.

Then last week clear skies at last

[Paul Haese]

Nice image, the detail is just starting to come out of the inner part of the dust lanes. Well done.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Great image B&D,
Good to see you back posting.
Enjoyed browsing your site too - some nice work there.
Clear skies and a new obs will see you going into imaging hyperdrive hopefully!
Doug

[gregbradley]

Very nice indeed.

Greg.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for the nice comments Paul and Greg much appreciated

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

Great image B&D,
Good to see you back posting.
Enjoyed browsing your site too - some nice work there.
Clear skies and a new obs will see you going into imaging hyperdrive hopefully!
Doug

When we managed to get three good nights in a row we really did go into hyperdrive Doug

David did two all nighters so we still have 4 more images to process. After being starved of fresh data I'm really looking forward to working on them

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

very nice!

[jase (Jason)]

Excellent work Barb and David. The dark dust lane looks rather sinister with details starting to emerge. Well done.