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Hi Andrew

Yes it has arrived and all setup next to you 😉 Grant is currently running some tests.

Regards Dave 

Great image Peter you do like the dim targets 😀 Happy New Year.

Dave

We are really looking forward to your set up arriving in Castillejar and getting it ready for the SGL community to start enjoying the wonderful dark skies here at Pixelskies.  This is a great project and hope you all enjoy it.  It's a fantastic opportunity to see how new and innovative equipment works and performs and we are looking forward to working alongside FLO and IKI.

Dave 

Well done brian great image 😎.

Dave

Excellent image Peter well worth the time and effort of 75 hour 😀.

Dave

34 minutes ago, carastro said:

The amount of time and effort and dark skies definitely shows in this excellent image.

Well done.  Is this a remote observatory that your rent and operate?

Carole 

Evening Carole,

I have recently moved from light polluted Birmingham to Rural Spain where we are setting up our second remote telescope hosting site.  I totally agree with you that dark skies certainly make a massive difference to the image quality and the amount of clear nights is also a bonus 😀.

Cheers Dave

43 minutes ago, Petergoodhew said:

Excellent detail David.  Nicely done.

Peter

Thanks Peter, much appreciated.  I am very pleased with the outcome.

Dave

This is IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula taken from ICAstronomy PixelSkies, Spain 

IC 5146 is a reflection/emission nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cygnus. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula. The cluster is also known as Collinder 470.

Lum33x900Secs
Red8x900Secs
Green14x900Secs
Blue8x900Secs
Ha 19x1200 Secs

20.5 Hours in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -5C

Image Scale: 0.95 

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik LRGB, Ha 6nm

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Many thanks for the comments all

On 19/07/2019 at 17:13, dave_galera said:

Beautiful details and slightly different colouring to normal SHO but I think I prefere it....well done

 

Cheers Dave just used SCNR to reduce the green and that was it for the colour. 

Here's my M16 taken from ICAstronomy in Oria, Spain.

Ha 10x1800 Secs
OIII 7x1800 Secs
SII 9x1800 Secs

13 Hours in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C

Image Scale: 0.95 

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Ha 6nm, OIII 6nm, SII 6nm

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Appreciate The comments all looking forward to adding some OIII and SII 😀.

Dave

8 hours ago, Seanelly said:

A marvelous image.

7 hours ago, assouptro said:

Stunning!

Many thanks 😀

This is M16 captured from ICAstronomy in Oria, Spain. The image was captured using a narrowband Hydrogen-alpha filter (Ha) as the moon was at about 70% this was a test of my new Ha filter. 

Also in the image is the famous Pillars of Creation.

Ha 10x1800 Secs

5 Hours in total

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C

Image Scale: 0.95 

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Ha 6nm

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

2 hours ago, dave_galera said:

Thanks received, will think when we can get around.....just being nosy really.

Ok 😁

10 hours ago, dave_galera said:

Can I have directions to Oria site, can't find them anywhere

I will PM you the directions. When are you thinking about coming over?

14 minutes ago, pete_l said:

So fairly near to me. I'm just outside Benamaurel towards Jabalcon.

Yes not to far away.

44 minutes ago, dave_galera said:

I did meet Colin a couple of months ago when he look at a friends very large property, think just before he bought the place at Castillejar............if you are ever around give me a shout and we can meet up.

We are just in the process of updating the website as we speak. There are no more places available left at Oria it's full. Maybe come and have a site visit at Oria?

4 minutes ago, dave_galera said:

Hi, yes I do have a dome, the only one in Galera as far as I know. I also know Colin from ICAstronomy, went to his place in the Jalon valley for a Pixinsight course that was being held there. You have a good site at Oria as the air here is dry and transparency is very good.

It's a small world Colin has made the move from Alcalali to Oria we also have a place near Castillejar where we are setting up another Hosting site and going to be running some courses from there. 

2 minutes ago, MarsG76 said:

Fantastic image... smooth and detailed..32 hours!!  just goes to show that the exposure time is necessary for quality astro images. 

Yep you Definitely need to put the time in and having good skies help 😉.

6 hours ago, dave_galera said:

Superb image with lots of detail.....and from a good location. I actually live in the village of Galera which is about 20KM from Oria.

Hi Dave Thanks for the comment been to Galera afew times do you have a dome by any chance?  I work at ICastronomy it's Definitely a great location.

7 hours ago, tomato said:

Superb image, great detail and colour.  You have made full use of your good location.👍

Thank you 😀

M106 was captured from our other site ICAstronomy in Oria. This has got to be my favourite galaxy of them all. The processing was a lot easier than the last time I processed it as this data was taken from a dark site in Spain and not from light polluted UK.

Some Info about M106:

Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. It is also a Seyfert II galaxy.

Lum 51x900 Secs 
Red 19x600 Secs 
Green 10x600 Secs 
Blue 10x600 Secs 
Ha 26x1800 Secs

32 Hours 15 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C

Image Scale: 0.95 

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB,Astronomik Luminance filters L-3,Astronomik Ha 6nm

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Many Thanks for all the comments 😀.

 Thanks for the comments 😀

On 02/06/2019 at 20:19, astro mick said:

That is an excellent image with the propeller showing nicely and a Galaxy to boot.

Great job.

Mick.

On 02/06/2019 at 21:11, FaB-Bo-Peep said:

Wow!!!!!!

M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules was captured from IC Astronomy in Oria.

Some Info about M13:

M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter, and it is composed of several hundred thousand stars, the brightest of which is a red giant, the variable star V11, with an apparent visual magnitude of 11.95. M13 is about 22,200 light-years away from Earth.

Lum 13x600 Secs 
Red 19x600 Secs 
Green 26x600 Secs 
Blue 23x600 Secs 

13 Hours 30 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C

Image Scale: 0.95 

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB,Astronomik Luminance filters L-3

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC