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Looks great Maurice! Very nice composition, and the new observatory looks very nice! Pieter
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LDN 1355 & 1358 and surroundings in Cassiopeia
pietervdv replied to mftoet's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
Great capture! Too bad about the lost 2 hours, but 7 hours is still very decent. Looks great in this wide field view. Pieter -
Thanks all for the nice comments! Thank you! The scope is based on a 250 mm f/4 premium grade mirror, all other components are custom designed/made parts. I have been very happy with it! There are some pictures of the design and build here: https://pietervandevelde.smugmug.com/Pics/Deepsky-Equipment/
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Hi all, Last week I've put together some of my data made the last couple of months to compose this bi-colour image of M27. Quite tricky to proces due to the high dynamic range of the object, quite a pain to tease out the faint outer details without making the image look to forced. I started the processing job from scratch a couple of times, but settled with this version for now. The h-alpha data was acquired from my heavily light polluted backyard, the o3 data I acquired during an astro holiday in Southern France (Provence) under pitch black skies late August. Thanks for checking the
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Very nice! The joys of working remote, spending hours and hours on these faint fuzzies.
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Great stuff Maurice, those are indeed a lot of stars... . Impressive also the speed of this setup, to go so deep after 6 hours... And you even took 2 panels in that time. Pieter
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Very nice Olly. Always interesting to go after these unusual faint fuzzies... Pieter
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Indeed, you read my mind. The region next to this was imaged by Lorenzo Comolli and there are extremely faint traces O3 present in the whole area. http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d207.htm He focused on the G82.2+5.3 supernova remnant in DWB145 just besides my frame. I suspect there is something very interesting to see in O3 in the bottom left part of my picture. Something to try my 4.5nm O3 baader filter on. Pieter
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Great! Very nice and subtle. Pieter
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Thanks. You are forgiven. That does not go for the senior citizen who ran me off the road.
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Thank you! LeDu2 is right here; it is not very obvious in Aladin, this is the outline of my image. Regards, Pieter
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Hello all, Finally found some time to make another astrophoto (was 5 months ago...). I sustained a pretty bad cycling accident in February and was only able to carry my equipment outside again about 3 weeks ago. Great to be able to make an image again. This one was on my bucket list for several years and I have spent 20 hours on it the last couple of days. It's a 2 panel mosaic of a very faint and rarely imaged patch of nebulosity next to DWB145 in Cygnus. Thanks to Nicolas Outters for the inspiration! Scope: 10" f/3.8 homebuilt Astrograph with 3" Wynne corrector CMO
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Cygnus Mosaic: NA to Butterfly in Ha
pietervdv replied to Knight of Clear Skies's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
Always great to see nice B/W images like this. This is a very handy reference image to pick some potential new targets from! Pieter -
Very nice, I really like b/w images like this. Pieter
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Very nice, I'm impressed you got so many in a single night! Pieter