Craney

".....and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...."  

This phrase has been ringing in my ears all week, so I chose to image the Soap Bubble Planetary Nebula, with a Full Moon this week and about 2 hours nautical darkness  with an 80mm refractor and with 10 mins subs.    So it was a narrowband venture in Ha and OIII.    A challenge then.

These are the longest subs I have ever taken and the total duration was the longest I have ever done for a single object.  Also, everything has been stretched to beyond any elastic limit for an image.....

The result is not conclusive.   I think its in there......    Has anybody imaged this lovely little object with an 80mm  from the UK ?? 

Atik 414ex.  Equinox 80 with 0.6x reducer. HeQ5. Phd2.

Ha 100mins  (10x10)

OIII 70mins  (7x10)

Maybe one for the bigger guns and more darkness.

Sean

ALPS ......   🏔️🏕️🌙

That is one nice set up... and you have  several hundred more clear nights per year than us up here  in't Yorkshire....   < insert  green face envy emoji >

Wow....   almost an impressionistic painting of the event...     Very striking.

Nice work.     

I must have a crack at that type of animation.   The timing of the event left me with a privet hedge, 2 trees and an opaque semi-detached in the way.

Good shot.   I magine it is a difficult object to expose with such a variation in brightness across the surface.

As a matter of scale,  does anybody know the size  (width) of that rille, canyon  to the immediate left of your yellow circle ??   

(great picture btw. )  

6 minutes ago, Stu said:

Nice one Cyril....

..... lets have another one !!              ( as the song used to go.   I'm sure you don't need reminding of that Cyril )

OK...  yes I should have said FAR side..... but it was too tempting with the Pink Floydian reference......

Yes, the whole sphere is lit, so it does not make pure astronomical sense anyway,  but hey !!......  its a piece of art....

One thing I have noticed is because of its size and aspect, you cannot get the true Earth perspective as the top limb gets progressively hidden as you walk nearer to it.

Still, I enjoyed the experience.

Try this one.....  no end of objects... and there are filters for brightness, object type, best altitude,  Moon distance.., etc...

https://telescopius.com/

EDIT:...just read what I wrote, and have made a bit more sense out of it....

No, Yorkshire hasn't launched its own Lunar Space Program.......  this is a touring piece of visual art by Luke Jerram and part of the Harrogate International Festival.

Here it is being displayed in St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate.  

Thats a very neat use of the finder bracket.  👍

Thanks for sharing... that looks like a very interesting region for a longer focal length.

Nice. That looks like an active connecting plasma-arc-thingy....   Looks a good feature to get a time lapse on,   clouds permitting of course....

Well done.      I was thinking about suggesting a competition  for  'Horizon-limited-DSO's'   ..... 3 degrees... crikey !!!!!

Ladies Omega Moonwatch........     that's sorted then...

1 hour ago, GlenM said:

That's taking the mick. Certainly wouldn't accept anything like that.

Delivered to my place of work and I didn't sign for it...  there be a warning.  

The person sending it did not do a very good job in packaging it up. Far too much space and virtually no padding or packing.....oh... and no insurance.

Having the delivery firm....no names..... apparently run over it with a fork lift truck didn't help the situation.    It's available for sale if anybody wants an OTA  that won't roll away on a slope  

With this crop, the more you zoom in, the more detail you get..... 

2 minutes ago, johninderby said:

 the primary mirror was broken in two. 🙀

That's a shocker.

This one did survive, and actually does produce an image but I would not like to examine the star shapes too closely.   Probably needs a tilt-adjuster or several...

15 minutes ago, mihaighita said:

OMG! Has anything survived inside there?

It was a second hand OTA ( Celestron C8N)......   it took a few knocks.....😖

Could be worse.....

Agreed,   not far off the Hubble version.

Marvellous.     it is such a wonderfully ornate nebula it almost sparkles by itself. 

Did you manage this with 1 1/4" filters   ??

I'm surprised   TeleVue  don't name their products after cloud groups.    One tends to lead to the other.

There is a 4x powermate available.