Howdy
Finally captured something Ive been after for a while. Its one of Astro imager David Malin's unusual images that I wanted to capture ever since seeing his fantastic image of it. Its CG4 in Puppis http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...tid=5133&stc=1
40 mins of imaging (4 x 10 mins ISO 400) no filter, Lumicon Coma Corrector, 10 inch F5.6 off axis guided, eos 300D, imaging started at around 3:20 am!
Here is David Malins image, taken with the 3.9 metre Anglo Australian telescope (just a wee bit bigger then mi scope hehehehehe) http://www.aao.gov.au/images/captions/aat071a.html
This object looks like a cosmic creature about to devour the galaxy.
well tornado, for the last ten minutes, i have been flicking between the malin image and yours and apart from the colour of the main object, i reckon you have done a comparable job!
What a strange object! Awesome shot mate You can make out the shape of the 'mouth'. Looks kinda like that big worm thing that lives in the asteroid on StarWars. Watch out poor galaxy!
Scott, what a wonderful job. Very very nice. with a bit of playing around and doing what David M did, create your own colours.
Hey that reminds me , In the video Vault somewhere I have a talk done by David at NAS on his kodak film development history and showed with explaination some of his images. I will have to dig that one out. I think this image was discussed in the talk.
Many thanks all, happy to share the more obscure objects out there
I do remember attending a David Malin talk some years ago at Newcastle Uni now, a most fascinating talk. At the time I didnt know it would be possible to by an SLR camera that had a electronic sensor inplace of film that could catch such objects in amateur sized scopes from the suburbs
Scott
One thing I love about Astrophotography is revealing objects that you can't see visually and this Cometary Globule fits right into that category. I'd imagine you can not observe this object even with the AAO.
It's obviously a very faint nebula but your image shows it quite well.
Great image well done.
I wonder which star is blowing it into that shape ?
I agree,taking pictures lets us look again and ponder the implications of what we are looking at.Tornado33 and photon collector and more do this admirably.I know how hard it is to produce such good pictures.Cold nights (the best for imaging) and lots of equipment manipulation let alone carrying in and out!
But what fun?Fun? We must be mad!
Thanks agin all. Its objects like this that spur me on to getting up in the wee hours to stand shivering at the scope at 3 am manually guiding it while most sane ppl are in bed asleep hehehehe.
Tornado33 you should get an autoguiding setup.I am willing to help.Here's a pic of of a guidescope I built for my Tal200k.Its an F3.4 340mm achromat with a laterally adjustable magnetically held toucam.This guides the Tal very well.It easily and rigidly attaches to any size tube.It is also very light. Also a resized unprocessed frame (Touc47)from the Tal unfiltered, note the light pollution.Exp 331sec at ISO 800.
You are welcome to try this guidescope out on your system.
hey Scott, most interesting:-)
Really does look like the globule is trying to devour the galaxy, it even looks like the gap is closer in your pic........lol
It's interesting to compare your image to Malin's. Considering he had access to a telescope that gathers 240 times more light than yours can, it's an impressive image.
It's amazing what can be achieved by dedicated amateurs with amateur level equipment.
