M42- Drugs are bad m'kay?

[Peter Ward]

Promise not to post any more after this

M42 with significant processing

[h0ughy (David)]

yeah sure

thoroughly enjoyable Peter

[allan gould]

Very nice Ha shot, Peter - with heaps of detail

[gregbradley]

That's a real top notch setup you've got yourself there. AP155 and the TCC is a sublime combo and the STX will extract all that potential nicely.

Wonderful sharp detail there only achievable with such high end gear.

The AP155 has to be the alltime best refractor made.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Yeah, super cool! Keep'em coming.

[astroron (Ron)]

Nice image Peter

[mill (Martin)]

Looking good Peter
But where is the HIGH res version
Just want to have a nice pixel peeping experience

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Alan, Dave, Greg, Marc, Ron, Martin.

BTW hope the title was not too cryptic...( it would be no mystery to fans of South Park)

Indeed, the AP155 is a rare bird.

I'm told due to its high index (and sadly no longer available) NASA comissioned glass, the I/R correction is a little better than the AP160 which followed it. Remarkable seeing the AP155 is also F7, rather than F7.5

AP kindly let me have their one and only prototype TCC to STX adapter, ..however it is unlikely they will shift to commercial production..simply not enough nutters like myself out there .

[richardo (Rich)]

Nice view Pete,
huge swath of sky with this setup.

Rich

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by mill

But where is the HIGH res version

Ok The whole uncropped Enchilada is here 1920x1920 (about half res 'cos my monitor is that wide)

Ratty shadow detail.. due noise (rain precluded any more data... for now..)

[Octane (Humayun)]

That looks marvelous, Peter.

Wow!

H