Whistle Stop Tour 30/05/08

[steppenwolf]

Tonight's half reasonable conditions (it didn't actually rain!) caught me by surprise so I hadn't planned an imaging session but I didn't want to miss out on an opportunity to get out and image something so I ended up trying 4 different objects pretty much at random although they were all known to me beforehand.

M13 Globular Cluster

M57 The Ring Nebula

M27 The Dumbbell Nebula

Albireo Double Star in Cygnus

[zhgutas]

Every single one is superb! Although I love globs, I give my highest mark to the Dumbbell this time Wonderful colour and detail in that. However, as I said, these all are excellent, even forgetting that it was only "half decent conditions" Nice collection Steve

Marius

[anthony]

Superb. Good nights work!

Anthony

[Sam]

Wow Steve :shock: , you have been busy - awesome images! M13 is very detailed - and the ring and dumbbell are stunning! and colour difference in the double is brilliant - great stuff.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

A great set of images Steve, well done.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[cygnusx1]

Hey Steve, a cracking twilights work!

4-in-1 and all superb.

[beamish]

Good to see you posting, your usual high standard images Steve, love M57.

Karlo

[saturn5]

Every one a beauty. :thumbleft:

[RobH]

Excellent set of images

Cheers

Rob

[robindurant]

Ring & Dumbell fantastico !

Robin

[MikeD]

Sweeeeeet collection of very good images.

The ring gets my vote, great colour and detail.

Great work.

Mike.

[CELESCOPE]

all do it for me Steve , they are excellent

Rog

[SteelRat]

What a great session that was then Steve 8) Lovely images all - that Dumbbell is a cracker

cheers

Matthew

[rawhead]

I saw M57 and Albireo for the first time last night. Have hived off those excellent pics as a momento

Cheers

Jon

[trudie]

You have been busy, great set of images, love the dumbell.

Trudie

[LostNSpace]

Great images Steve.

I guess its what you have to do with our great British weather the way it is and take any opportunity you can to get out there and image. The opportunities are few and far between.

Mark

[legion48]

Superb, especially the 2 neb's. What a great night you had. :salute:

[Aza]

Very nice! Excellent nights work

[Beyond_Vision]

I would be more than happy with just one of those images in a single nights session. They are all superbly captured Steve congrats.

Any details on the equipment and exposure times?

Regards

Kevin

[steppenwolf]

Hi Kevin,

All four images were taken with my SXVF-H9C through my Skywatcher 10" Newtonian mounted on an EQ6 and guided via a Photax 500mm F8 Telephoto lens. All the images were Bias and Dark frame subtracted from my 'library' calibration sets in MaximDL and final processing in PhotoShop. The exposure values and frame counts were as follows:-

M13 :- 4 subs of 200 seconds each

M57 :- 5 subs of 200 seconds each (DDP processing applied)

M27 :- 8 subs of 300 seconds each

Albireo:- 19 subs of 3 seconds each

[barkis]

A great four timer there Steve. Class images, all four.

Are you imaging from the UK? We have had a deal of sunshine of late up in't North here, but can't eyeball any stars at night at all. Weird.

Ron.

[steppenwolf]

Are you imaging from the UK?

Oh yes! West Sussex, just north of the South Downs .....

[brendant]

Four superb images Steve, love them all but I have a soft spot for M27 because it was my first DSO and your image is superb. Great work considering the short nights.

Brendan

[steppenwolf]

but I have a soft spot for M27 because it was my first DSO

Brendan, there's a coincidence, it was my first too, 3 and a bit years ago in a Meade DS114ATS Reflector. It took ages to find it that night but when I did find it and could see why it was named the Dumbbell, I was hooked on DSO's having only ever seen the Moon and Jupiter before! You never forget your first DSO .....

[centroid]

A perfect night Steve, and some perfect results to show for it

Dave