Ramsay

On 13/04/2020 at 17:53, Craney said:

A contributor on Astrobin has recently posted a picture of the Owl nebula with a nearby Quasar. 

"How amazing"  I thought, probably one of those humongous scopes and totally beyond my skill set ........ but hang on there.   

Immediately I scurried off to my hard drive and dug out my attempts at this object. Sure enough,  there it is... well I 'm hoping it is.

It is actually quite hard to verify, even with the internet.     The best I.D. I have is  QUASAR J111504.4+55-143  with a magnitude of  +19.1 .

Here is the amazing bit,   distance = 8.2 Billion light years.    That just seems incredible....... from my back garden !!!!!!

Anybody else know anything of this object ?    

<details.   C8 EdgeHD with Atik 414 mono.  LRGB shot  60mins L and 45mins each on RGB>

< The Owl looks like he's squinting... must have sat on a thorn   😖 >

Sean

 

 

There is a typo in your description of the Quasar it should be J111504.4+550143 - I think somebody hit the minus key instead of the zero and its been cut and pasted in several places on the WWW.

 http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=@553563&Name=[VV2006] J111504.4+550143&submit=submit

Its back working again!

Is anybody else having a problem logging on to telescopius.com?

As others have said this post contains some really good information. I for one am looking forward to trying out some of the techniques mentioned as so far I have only ever done one shot imaging. Thanks again for all the information.