Stardust

On 20/11/2021 at 23:07, Philip R said:

I have always fancied one of these Russian 🇷🇺 beauties! 😋

Are they any good? 😁

My collimation  is smidgen off but not sure how to adjust it. Saturn's rings were a nice sight

10 hours ago, neil phillips said:

No for sure been doing saturated colour work myself recently

Just had a look at some of your images, real stunners there with the 12" newt, love them

9 hours ago, neil phillips said:

A blast of colour quite cool actually.

Cheers, I know it's not everyone's thing but makes a change when you've done it in mono many times

Crater Copernicus 93km wide. Love the ejecta ray pattern from it. Taken last night Mak 180 Fuji Xt2 Televeue 2.5x powermate 250 frames stacked

I found that my 533 always has a green bias and do the same as Magnum which pretty much neutralizes the colours with a tweak in photoshop 

Been a while since doing any lunar, had a nice clear evening so thought I'd pull out the 180 mak ZWo224mc 130 frames

I prefer A with the stars less prominent 

Haven't used mine for a while but this is an image from 5 years ago with a Meade f6.3 reducer

lovely image, 2nd one for me

3 hours ago, ultranova said:

Amazing for 90 minutes,

Nicely processed , a nice 3d feel to it

well done 

Paul

the little scope and camera have done very well for the exposure time, another 90 minutes would have been better, i'll try again if it clears this week

thanks, just the wrong end of the season to get much more time on it and our weather doesn't help

First light for my Sharpstar 61 mk2. A very short session when the clouds cleared, just 90 mins (18x5) integration  with a ZWo 533mc 

Lomo Astele 60 mak. Russian, metal tube, star map and just looks so sweet 

22 hours ago, Richie092 said:

Love this. Is it cropped at all? Did you use an IR/UV filter at all?

Yes it is quite a good crop and I used an Optolong L- enhance filter on loan from a friend

lovely details and background

3 hours ago, theropod said:

There should be a “blown off at the knees” emoji!

🙏 😄 🤣 

1 hour ago, Sunshine said:

Wow that is some amazing detail in that image, I have to ask about the light streaks bottom right of the horse head, are they natural?

I suspect internal reflections, I'll have to check. I use the focuser and reducer on other scopes with no issue's. Could be something shiny  in there.

Close up of the Horsehead Nebula, tricky being a dark object against, well more dark space. I originally took 12 exposures and just wasn't enough so added more back in 2016. processed today. The swirly rings are from some reflections, The old coatings are degrading on the scope which doesn't help but not too distracting. Taken In HA though an old Meade LX6 8" f6.3 sct reduced to f5. 31x600 second exposures Arik One-1 Baader 7nm HA. #atikcameras #meade

maybe I'll stick with what I've got, I had seen the Baader 3.5nm but wasn't sure myself

1 hour ago, peter shah said:

Super image, I particularly like your framing and how well you have controlled Alnitak.

Thanks Peter, The Baader filter has done a good job. I have been wondering about the 3nm Antlia but I'm quite happy with this so far.

Horsehead and Flame nebula in Orion. Taken last year but only processed today. It's 21 x 600 second exposures (3.5hrs) Baader 7nm HA, Atik one-6 camera, Meade 127mm s5000 triplet. #atikcameras #meade

OOh these are nice, just trying to see if I'd benefit changing my HA 7nm Baader for one of these. Thanks for doing the comparison

9 hours ago, Magnum said:

Nice image Dave, and great find when the weather is bad

 

Lee

thanks Lee, quite happy with the filter and yes a good find when you can't do any imaging

18 hours ago, wxsatuser said:

Hi, not used Baader filters so hard to say but the Astrodon 5nm works very well at f/2.
There is some vignetting but I could live with that, at least I could image after the LP
got really bad here.

Thanks for looking at mine, not done any for a while, got back into an old hobby that
takes most of my time now.
 

ok cheers. I'm quite happy with the Baader, but you always wonder what the improvement would be. I have another hobby which has to share the time and Money too. Pretty easy at the moment with the rather rubbish weather we've been having

6 hours ago, wxsatuser said:

Nice image.

It is a huge region with lots going on.

Thanks Mike. I've just looked at your link, great set of widefield images. How do you find the 5nm Astrodon compared to the Baaders