Markarians Chain

[peter shah]

Ive been doing some real extreme tweaking of the kit, the ccd has never been flat in the camera so i took upon myself to sort it, very gently teasing the sensor flat....enough to make most cry at the mere thought. Its very close but at F3.8 the focus only needs to be out by 30un for it to show up on the AG. I still need to refine my polar alignment, im getting a little rotation in the field.

Anyway....Grabbed this shot of Markarian's Chain, very quick shot 1 hour of luminance, 10mins of red 9mins of blue and 7mins of green, im still planing on getting some more colour data for it.

also just to show the detail (not there is much to show in these objects) a full res shot of The Eyes, it difficult to see i the wider frame.

Thanks for looking

Peter

[laser_jock99]

Good work as ever Peter. Maybe there will be a break in the clouds this weekend so you can add more data?

[MikeD]

Nicely done Peter, very clean for such a short run.

Mike.

[Black Knight]

Very nice. Terrific composition.

[Quatermass]

That is the best I have seen yet really fantastic I like it very much indeed.

[Tom OD]

blumming hell, thats a lot of colour for less than 30mins.

Nice job, Tom.

[Fenriz]

Another fantastic image Peter, great job.

[Gina]

Nice one - good detail

[Slim]

What a beautiful image. This is a fantastic target and yet another that I have to try and capture.

[Spikey]

Terrific stuff as always Peter.

[toxic]

very nice indeed ---no excellent and something to aspire to

[steppenwolf]

The full field image is gorgeous - lovely colours for such a shot exposure length.

[peter shah]

Many thanks everyone im still trying to sort a couple of small issues but it means getting things made for the kit, still im getting better shape stars than i have been even it they arent yet perfect. The poor polar alignment isnt helping and is something i will need to refine too.

[Pete Presland]

a couple of small issues that is a great image peter so much going on all over the picture, its hard to count all the fuzzies!

[Viv]

Peter - for just one hour of data, that's amazing !

Looking forward to updates, if you add more.

[foundaplanet]

Beautiful.

[Asur84]

Love that image.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Fantastic stuff. Well done.

[morimarty]

A lovely shot of markarians chain Peter. as others have said for such a short exposure run it is a remarkable image.

[ollypenrice]

Nobody does better colour than you, Peter, and here you do it again with minimal data. The Eyes will look ravishing if you can get more time in.

Olly

[sanmatt]

Just glorious!

[Dean]

:icon_salut:Very very nice image Peter

Dean

[old_eyes]

Wow - for such a short run it looks fantastic. Very, very impressed.

old_eyes

[RobH]

Cracking image Peter....do you plan to add more time?

Rob

[peter shah]

Cracking image Peter....do you plan to add more time?

Rob

I was hoping to rob, but I've got to start a two weeks of nights at work, so probably not soon........