Possible meet up Sunday (27th)?

[rocketandroll]

Hi all

Well, at the moment the predictions are that Sunday night will be nice and clear here in the east.

I know it's only a couple of days notice but... would anyone be interested in a small meet up here in Ipswich?

I was thinking, for starters, we could use my imaging site on the outskirts of town... worst case, if things don't go well it's literally 20 yards from a fairly good pub and we can lock the carpark up with the gear set up and it should be fairly safe.

If anyone's interested... drop me a PM and we'll see if we can get something organised.

I'll be down there from about 5:30pm onwards getting set up for imaging.... but I'm happy to say any time between then and 11:00 for folks to turn up if you want.

Ben

[rocketandroll]

Just to quickly say thanks to Graham and Matt for popping down!

It was a great evening, I got lots of data, Matt took some snaps too, we all had a look at a few things through Matt's scope and chatted for a few hours in the cold :-)

It'd definitely be good to organise another imaging/observing session and see if we can get more of us together, maybe in the new year now?

Failing that... is everyone up for a social before Christmas? Or is it a bit too much pfaf to all meet up and NOT do any astronomy?

Thoughts?

Ben

[steelfixer]

Hi Ben

It was good to meet you too.

How did the vale neb come out in the end?

When I got home I did an 82 panel mosaic of M45.

I have 82 Tif images covering every star in M 45, each Tif is a stacked 1000 frame AVI.

Problem is Microsoft ICE cannot put it together so I am now trying to find away of doing it manually.

Anyway a good night that must be repeated soon.

Graham

[rocketandroll]

Cheers Graham....

Veil data came out lovely :-)

I managed 21 X 6 minute subs in the end after taking out the ones with tails and various genetic deformities :-)

Thread on it in the DSO Imaging forum here:

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/165285-autumns-veil.html

I also put up the pics from the Perseus double cluster...

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/165262-quick-perseus-double-cluster.html

And the extra data added to my M45 at the end of the evening, here:

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/165302-seven-ugly-sisters-get-makeover.html

All in all about the most productive night of imaging I've had! :-)

It'd be great to see the M45 data you got... afraid I'm not sure if I can help on the mosaic thing... not tried it myself yet :-)

Ben

PS: Better resolution versions of all the pics are in my Flickr account in my sig.

[mcro89]

Hey guys,

It was great meeting up with you two, had a good night. Nice set of photos you got from that night Ben, good work.

Will have to meet up again soon.

Matt

[steelfixer]

Ben the photos look great.

Matt good to meet you to.

[Dave Dubya]

Only saw this thread today, otherwise I'd have probably come along.

(I should probably have subscribed to forum before...)

[rocketandroll]

No probs Dave!

It was (hopefully) the first of many meet-ups!

We may try and have a social before Xmas, failing that, another observing/imaging session in the new year... I'll post on here as soon as there's any coherent plan!

Ben