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Awesome.. reminds me of what my 1st M42 look like...

Looks like a comet... check if it's documented.. you might have a comet named after you...

Those images are superb.. the C8 is a great scope for imaging close ups.

Beautiful... looks like liquid GOLD!!!!

Thanks for sharing your experience.. I remember my first view of the moon and planets through a scope so I know the feeling.

looks great, well done...

Very very nice.. good to see that the GRS hasn't disintegrated yet.....

Looks great.. nice and delicate veil....

Are you sure that that's not some dirt on the sensor?

Hi All, Sharing my latest image, the Colliding Galaxies, NGC2207 and IC2163, in Canis Major. I imaged this at 2032mm, f10 on my 8" SCT and still it is very small in the frame but the actual collision is visible. Used the cooled 40D DSLR and exposed 600, 300 and 150 second subs, to make this image, total exposure was 5 hours 49 minutes and 30 seconds. Clear Skies, MG

Awesome, happy birthday and enjoy the scope.

Looks like my first M45... keep at it... use flats and bias too, it'll improve your image.

To my eyes, your test is a great success....

Fantastic close up... love it

Yes but wired in parallel and ultimately connected to two wires, 0 & 12V.

Of course, Any time... its worth noting that this "heat ring" cost me about $1.50 to make.

Wired in parallel.

I made one of these and put it around the CS lens... powered by a low power 12V power pack... this has solved my dew problem 100%, never had dew since installing this and the heat generated isn't so great that it causes any distortion or adverse side effects.

Do you have any issues with condensation. I found that condensation fogged out the view very quickly on most nights... I made a resistor based heater ring and placed that inside the dome which solved my condensation problem

+1 APT, shows the actual shutter count on connection

Nice photo....

Not completely... look up the stories that were very quickly taken down by the "ABC" regarding this, they need to save face... Ahh the media never lets the complete truth get in the way of a good (semi fictional) story that panders to the current fashion trend that they believe will sell. Take what you hear on MSM with a grain of salt.... yes, we are in a drought and it doesn't help, hence the back burning being necessary during winter.. after all this is Australia and the drought is cyclical, and we are one of, if not the, driest continent on the planet... in the next 5 years it'll be wet summers again... seen it happen over and over again...

Solid rain is not on the horizon again... it rained for a bit, and we thought that perhaps this will be a good down pour but it stopped and again it's hazy, foggy and dry.... These fires are getting out of hand, but even though Australia burns every year as a lot of the vegetation needs fires to spread, this year is particularly bad because of a group of dole bludging parasites protesting against back burning (something the Aboriginal people did to control the fires for thousands of years) because it, and I quote, "Will put too much CO2 into the atmosphere"... that action certainly saved CO2 getting into the atmosphere!!!... they are responsible for the loss of life and property that resulted. The government should have never folded to a group of people who contribute nothing (and their actions are obviously disasterous), hopefully this will be a lesson learned and this will make those groups blocking roads a act of terrorism, vandalism or illegal by what ever title... and we will never see a repeat of this again... There are a lot of angry people pointing fingers at those types... Any way... the forcast shows 30% chance of rain on Saturday & Sunday.... we're here hoping that it's 100% and a down pour.

Hi All, This is my first time ever imaged Thor's Helmet Nebula, NGC 2359, located in the constellation Canis Major. This image is not my finest so far but was a bit of a challenge with the Australian bushfires raging on for many months now and sending a lot of smoke into the atmosphere, blocking out a lot of the sky, crippling seeing and transparency and as a result causing me to throw out a lot of failed subs. The subs I used for this image are a total of 35 hours 7 minutes and 30 seconds, these are a selection of the best subs for this image but I have spent a lot more time in tracking this nebula from 30 November 2019 until 4 January 2020. This image was exposed through a Celestron 8" SCT at 2032mm focal length using a astro-modded and cooled Canon 40D DSLR. This consists of HAlpha and OIII only, combined as HOO in RGB channels... I was going to capture SII also and create an SHO image but seeing the amount of time I spent on this object so far, I decided to stick with wht I have.. I might revisit this object next year and create a SHO image of NGC2359. BTW the fires are not looking like they're about to go out but we have had a considerable amount of rain yesterday and today so hopefully soon enough the fires will go out... Clear Skies, MG