M27 Dumbbell

[Ken]

Hi just a quick M27 I captured between the clouds last week, I was surprised at the amount of detail that can be captured with 5 minute subs at F4.5. Taken with 18" Newt. with QHY9, guided off axis with Loadstar . Total expoure time red green and Ha 30 mins. blue 40 mins. I am still trying to get calibration frames to work so I ended up not using any.
Clear skies I wish Ken.

[icytailmark (Mark)]

wow that looks amazing

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Great image Ken. Love the details you have captured. How is the 18" Newt mounted?

Peter

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Agreed, it's a fantastic image.
Thanks for posting.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeh that looks pretty good Ken, there is even a hint of the very faint outer areas.

Nice job

Mike

[TrevorW]

Nice one Ken

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! Nice one. Great details and colors.

[gregbradley]

A great image Ken. That's the best M27 I have seen taken in Australia.

A bit of blue extinction occurring in the background which makes it look a bit brown? Perhaps up the blue in the background area only as red is too biased.

Greg.

[Liz]

Wow, beautiful image Ken.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Monster scope at work, lots of detail, love to see a pic of your setup too.

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Nice! Colours are spot on..!

[skyoyster (Alexandra)]

Magnificent!

[Hagar (Doug)]

Amazing image Ken, The 18" certainly pulls in the light and detail.
Nicely processed and presented.
Well done.

[spearo (Frank)]

nice detail inside
well done
frank

[Octane (Humayun)]

Ken,

That's a fabulous image. A beautiful glowing orb in space. Love it.

Oh, to have such aperture on a solid mount!

H

[Ken]

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback
This is the first image since I replaced my wooden tube with a aluminium truss tube and replaced the secondary mirror with a larger version.
Peter, the tube is mounted on a home made equatorial fork and driven by a dob driver system.
Thanks for the kind words Greg, the QHY9 is not a strong performer in the blue, the red can get a bit overwhelming in the background but I will try and tweak the blue a bit.
clear skies
Ken

[Tilt (Michael)]

Nice work Ken, loads of detail in this image. Looks like the new secondary on the 18" newt is working well.

Michael

[Ken]

Thanks Michael I paid a bit extra for a 4" 30th wave secondary, hopefully it helps with image quality if the seeing is good.
Clear skies Ken.

[Paul Haese]

Nice image Ken. The detail is very nice and I echo the comment about it being the best I have seen taken from Australia.

[Ken]

Thanks Paul for the positive feedback, I feel bad now that I put so little imaging time into this as I know there is a lot more faint detail in the background. I guess it will be redone next year.
Clear skies Ken