Rho Ophiuchi region with two scopes

[PaulKummer]

Olly wanted to try out his "photon hoover", two scopes of roughly equal focal length on one mount. I wanted to point at the Antares/Rho region (as usual) so this is where we ended up. We did have a few technical problems (with the aquisition, not the mounting) which mainly affected the left side of this two pane mosaic.

Hope you like it.

Paul

Rho Ophiuchi region - a two pane mosaic

Taken with two scopes on one mount -

Takahashi FSQ85 at FL=450mm, Atik 4000 mono

Altair Astro Wave Series 80 APO at FL=480mm

Mount - Takahashi EM200

Guiding - AstroArt; Acquisition - Artemis Capture

Processing PixInsight, Photoshop, Registar

Both panes - 6*600s for each of RGB

West pane - 36*600s OSC

East pane - 21*600s OSC

Full size image is here: http://paulandelaine...o-region-XL.jpg

[laser_jock99]

Good result- I take it this wasn't from Cheshire?

[Gina]

WOW!! That's wonderful

[WaveSoarer]

That's stunning. So much detail.

[JamesF]

That is lovely. It really feels three-dimensional.

James

[Les Tilly]

That is awesome great result how about doing a few more pains

Les

[Gina]

That is lovely. It really feels three-dimensional.

James

It does, doesn't it Really lovely

[PaulKummer]

Thanks all for your comments - glad you like it.

Good result- I take it this wasn't from Cheshire?

That would be nice. But, it's taken from Olly's place in the South of France.

That is awesome great result how about doing a few more pains

Perhaps next June. Unfortunately I can only manage to get away once a year at present And in June the Milky Way will be higher so Rho might be competing with other targets

(I should have mentioned that this was taken in the middle two weeks of May).

Paul

[ultranova]

cracking shot, has real depth to it, and the framing is spot on well done

[ollypenrice]

Great to see this now you've finished it, Paul. You've processed it to bring all the drama into the dust lanes, which I like very much. An incredible part of the sky but soooo darned dificult.

Olly

[farunj]

Wow!! Stunning photo!!

[Tom OD]

Looks very 3D, and yes my favourite area of the sky too. May is good in Ollys as its a bit later in the morning when it pops up. Better seeing and calmer I find.

T.