M1 - first of my Kelling batch

[MartinB]

This was taken early Saturday morning. Managed 6 x 900secs Ha 6x150secs binned G + B and, owing to a mistake setting the sequence, just 3x150 secs binned blue. Would have been more but last about an hours worth of data due to dew.

Scope 10" LX200R with SXV AO and QSI 532ws cam. Unfortunately I'm not able to use my 6.3 reducer at the mo so this was at native f/l 2500mm F10. Finding a guidestar to do justice to the AO with an off axis guider wasn't really possible. In the end I had to settle for 1/2 sec exposures. Also, for some reason the AO wasn't communicating with the mount so I had to occn manually make corrections to keep within the range of the AO.

Pleased with the Ha detail. Colour would have been better with a bit more blue. Would like to get some OIII at some point.

It was great to be imaging in company at Kelling, keeping awake munching crisps and chocolate ginger biscuits with glasses of white wine at 4.00am.

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[Jeff RV]

Great image Martin, Congratulations on that one mate. :salute:

Jeff.

[CELESCOPE]

WOW Martin ,that 9x900 secs certainly paid off, a great base for adding the colour , like this one , it has great detail with a lovely mmm yummy texture to it, infact i could eat it heehheeh .

Lovely work

Rog

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[markcol]

Lovely, detailed image Martin.

Mark

[trevboyd]

Looks great, Martin! I love the texture of M1, and it's come out brilliantly in that. Looks like we're in for a treat with lots of great images from Kelling... can't wait!

Trev

[Psychobilly]

A stunning amount of detail in the image Martin

Billy...

[brendant]

Excellent filamentry detail Martin, nice job despite the problems.

Brendan

[jgs001]

That's just amazing Martin

[Whippy]

Superb Martin, that's a craking M1. Looking forward to seeing the other images you got over the weekend .

Tony..

[centroid]

Now that is a 'cracker' Martin, the depth/detail is superb. Certainly worth the 'midnight oil' that you burned to get it.

Once you get the missing colour into it, it will be a real stunner!!.

Nice to see the LX200R (are we allowed to say that now ), giving the coma free image, just as it 'says on the tin'.

Dave

[MartinB]

Thanks everyone. Might have a play with the colour again but best to get me some more colour subs I think. I was grinning when the first Ha sub popped onto the screen but that might have been the wine.

Nice to see the LX200R (are we allowed to say that now ), giving the coma free image, just as it 'says on the tin'.

Absolutely flat field across the KAF-3200 chip and fully illuminated as well. No doubt about the optics in these scopes Dave, I think the stars are pretty tight for 2500mm f/l

[MikeD]

Great stuff Martin, nice tight detail.

Looking forward to more from the weekend.

Mike.

[steppenwolf]

There's some great detail in there, Martin - excellent!

[mik]

Super image good work

Mick

[MartinB]

Thanks again guys

[Ford Prefect]

Great image Martin, I tried this on thursday night but the QHY8 dewed up at that point of the evening Really glad you got an image of it

Jon

PS really great to meet you

[Beyond_Vision]

Superb detail with spot on guiding and star shape to the edge of frame. The image looks very organic like. Looking forward to when you can add some more OIII data

Regards

Kevin