Images from Ireland

[brendant]

Back home on holidays to Ireland last week and had some wonderful clear dark skies , forgot what a real dark sky looks like - magnificent , hard to believe just how much is visible to the naked eye, luckily I mamaged to smuggle the ED80 and mount into the car unnoticed, mind you the other half was wondering why all the cases did not fit into the boot LOL.

Managed to grab a couple of hours worth on two nights.

Brendan

[beamish]

Fantastic collection !

Karlo

[LostNSpace]

Nice collection of images you have there Brendan

Mark

[barkis]

What a lovely and varied set of images. You must have had a great experience acquiring those Brendan.

You have done a great job with all of them.

Ron.

[SteelRat]

Lovely set of pics from your two nights. Well done for getting the scope in un-noticed Hope the rest of the hol was as good as the skies

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[Sam]

You've been very busy on your holiday! Excellent images!

[CELESCOPE]

super set of images Brendan , what a difference a dark sky makes eh , great work mate

Rog

[brendant]

Thanks for all the kind comments guys.

Had a great time, two nights of the clearest / darkest skies I have seen for many years, only managed two nights imaging since Christmas before hols so was more than I could have expected. It was so clear, even managed to see the cassini division on the ED80 (5mm Eyepiece + 2x & 3x Barlows) the seeing was that good one night, could see M51 and M81 & M82 in the finderscope, numerous clusters visible with the naked eye, the views through binoculars was awesome. I just wish I could have brought the unpolluted skies back home.

Brendan

[beamish]

Thanks for all the kind comments guys.

Had a great time, two nights of the clearest / darkest skies I have seen for many years, only managed two nights imaging since Christmas before hols so was more than I could have expected. It was so clear, even managed to see the cassini division on the ED80 (5mm Eyepiece + 2x & 3x Barlows) the seeing was that good one night, could see M51 and M81 & M82 in the finderscope, numerous clusters visible with the naked eye, the views through binoculars was awesome. I just wish I could have brought the unpolluted skies back home.

Brendan

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[jgs001]

Lovely set of images Brendan

[brendant]

Thanks again for the feedback guys

Brendan

[Keagle]

Lovely shots you have there! Loving M51.

[Ferox]

Great images Brendan . Off to Ireland soon but doubt I'll be allowed to take the scope along.

[brendant]

Hope you got the weather I got Ferox, three perfectly clear nights out of six, managed to get out for two of them, as long as you are away from the big cities you will have superb dark skies, have a good / dark holiday.

Brendan

[RobH]

That's a great set of images Brendan, bet you had a thrill getting out under really dark skies

Whereabouts in Ireland did you take them?

Cheers

Rob

[brendant]

Thanks Rob,

All images taken in the Midlands (Laois, used to be home), the skies are just so dark , I had forgot what I had been used to as living on the outskirts of Glasgow for the past 15 years.

Brendan

[zhgutas]

As already said: superb collection, and a variety of targets! If you had a glob in there, it would probably cover all of the main imaging menu of astro photography

Marius

[brendant]

Thanks Marius, just added the Double Cluster to complete which was taken at the same time.

Brendan

[MikeD]

Missed these .

Great set of images and the skies over there sound fantastic. :shock:

Mike.

[brendant]

Thanks Mike,

If only we could have dark skies again it would make our imaging so much easier, I caught more in two nights than I caught in six months at home (Glasgow). All images were quick but if you were to spend a night on each object the quality would be superb, I usually spend twice as long on processing as imaging (i'm no good at either) but with unpolluted skies life would be so much simpler.

Brendan