ollypenrice Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I've very much enjoyed this one. Four nights, two on the colour and two on Ha, in the FSSQ85/EM200/Atik4000 mono.On the left is M24, the Sagittarius Star Cloud. The bright red emission nebula is IC1284 and SH2-35 is the vague stain of Ha to its right and a little above. There is an assortment of Barnard and VdB objects in there as well.Total exposure time 11 hours.In full; http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Les-Granges/22435624_WLMPTM#!i=1976552810&k=6VrmBFL&lb=1&s=OOlly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.h.f.wilkinson Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Absolutely lovely. Really great image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 That is outstanding. Excellent stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willarnold Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 WOW! That's another fantastic image from you Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Absolutly fantastic - fabulous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJJ Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Great image Olly. Who would have thought there is so much 'stuff' up there in the night sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htj Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 That sure is a lot of stars. Beutiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollypenrice Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Great image Olly. Who would have thought there is so much 'stuff' up there in the night sky?Yes, I think that therein lies the charm of astrophotograhy. In the bins you can see the star cloud but unless you were EE Barnard you might struggle to see much more!Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom OD Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Nice new presentation, and a good capture of the Ha region, and how many stars are in there!! I would not have thought of doing Ha on this region. Its paid off. Very cool, and I think we had a view of this in the dob the first time I went to Les G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Superb image (again) what gets me is the number of hours you seem to be able to amass on almost every image - envy shinning through! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollypenrice Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Superb image (again) what gets me is the number of hours you seem to be able to amass on almost every image - envy shinning through!...the local professional observatory has stats going back over thirty years and they open the dome on 300 nights a year and leave it open all night on 250 of those. Also at these latitudes the shortest night still has four hours of darkness. Plus we have had two rigs running throughout this dark time. It all adds up! l'm gad you like the pic. I really enjoyed doing this one.Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesF Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Thanks once again for posting it, Olly. It's a stunning image and made it much easier for me to find M24 last night because for the first time I actually had a clear idea in my head of what I was looking for. I seem to remember thinking last time I was looking for it: "There are an awful lot of stars here. How am I going to find an open cluster in this lot?" Never occurred to me at the time that the "awful lot of stars" was the cluster! Even so at quite low magnification it was still filling the field of view and I had to work my way around the edges to get any idea of the shape.James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo636 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Absolutely stunning image Olly, thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibby Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 What a grand vista! Excellent image as always, must be viewed at full size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farunj Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 That is mind blowing!! Stunning!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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