M31 COLOUR FROM FRIDAY

[CELESCOPE]

Martin mpeniak wanted to see it in colour

Rog

[barkis]

Beautiful Rog. just beautiful. It looked splendid without colour, but I have to say, the colour addition is the icing on the cake.

Ron.

[mpeniak]

Yeah, this is it Great image. Would not it show even better if you used focal reducer?

Martin

[CELESCOPE]

That is with a focal reducer Martin,hehheheh , 6,3 celestron reducer on ED80 . does give huge wide field , but as you know M31 is a huge galaxy anyway, i need to get a 135 mm camera lens attached to my Atik , it fits in a treat then .

Rog

[mpeniak]

That is with a focal reducer Martin,hehheheh , 6,3 celestron reducer on ED80 . does give huge wide field , but as you know M31 is a huge galaxy anyway, i need to get a 135 mm camera lens attached to my Atik , it fits in a treat then .

Rog

And is not it possible to use such focal reducer that would give you even wider field of view with the combination you got now so that you do not have to attach any lenses?

Martin

[CELESCOPE]

Possibly ,but not alot of difference ,maybe get a little more in , the trouble with this ccd imaging is getting the right reducer , we come up against a lot of prob , vignetting , coma etc , the 6.3 does a fine job eleminates all of this. to give a pretty good flat field,

this is why we have so many different scopes to accommodate different objects.

Rog

[lunator]

Rog

A very good pic.

Awesome amount of detail

Cheers

Ian

[SteelRat]

Real nice Rog 8)

[anthony]

Top stuff - it really is.

Anthony

Big bug ger too

[MartinB]

your best M31 to date I reckon Rog. Very nice with dust a plenty. It's all very subjective but looks a tad magenta to me.

[Ant]

M31 is a lot harder than you think, the FOV, bright core make this a really difficult obect to get the dust lanes etc without blowing the core (which is what I always do)!

I think that a good M31 is just about as impresive as you can get. I have only just seen this thread - I saw the image first following the link in Rogers sig (it was showing in the Stargazrs sig thing).

Mighty impresive! Try the DSLR Roger? That is one of my targets for Kelling!

Ant