Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 (edited) I managed to get out Monday night for the first time in months due to the very poor weather , which is annoying for a number of reasons .. one being I have 3 scopes that I need to set up for various reasons .. I have just fitted a new moonlight focuser with Rotator to my 130EDT .. , my TS65 Quad on iOptron 25 mount hasn't been set up since purchasing, and I fitted a set of colomation knobs to my 8" Edge which meant that this needed setting up properly .. so I decided to use the Edge as I wanted to capture the Crab Nebula and this gave a nice FOV .. I didn't get quite as long as I wanted on the target as I was setting the focus up etc ..but managed 6 hours total integration time 24 x 600 sec Ha 3nm 12 x 600 sec OIII 3nm processed in APP , PS and LR Edited November 21, 2019 by Brian28 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlaiv Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Nice image, although I'm not fan of artificial diffraction spikes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 I like that Brian - Background a touch dark (for me) but plenty of detail in M1. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 11 minutes ago, vlaiv said: Nice image, although I'm not fan of artificial diffraction spikes So you keep saying 😉😂.. but I like them .. 👍 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 6 minutes ago, Brian28 said: So you keep saying 😉😂.. but I like them .. 👍 Glad you took it in good humour as it was meant .. 😘 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carastro Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 That's very nice Brian. Carole 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken82 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Nice image Brain as that at f10 ? Are you using an OAG ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul M Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Very nice image. I got zooming in on it and I'm trying to convince myself that you've got a pixel's worth of the Crab Pulsar just along side it's companion field star From: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/RGB-image-of-the-Crab-nebula-The-pulsar-is-marked-with-a-circle_fig3_234462482 And From: http://www.messier.seds.org/more/m001_pulsar.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 13 minutes ago, Ken82 said: Nice image Brain as that at f10 ? Are you using an OAG ? Hi Ken . the scope has the 0.7 reducer flattener fitted so f8 ..and I'm using a QSI583 camera with OAG .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, Paul M said: Very nice image. I got zooming in on it and I'm trying to convince myself that you've got a pixel's worth of the Crab Pulsar just along side it's companion field star From: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/RGB-image-of-the-Crab-nebula-The-pulsar-is-marked-with-a-circle_fig3_234462482 And From: http://www.messier.seds.org/more/m001_pulsar.html Thanks Paul , that's interesting, I'll look at the data again ., thank you 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 41 minutes ago, carastro said: That's very nice Brian. Carole Thanks Carole .. you know how bad the weather has been in this neck of the woods as your only over the river . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carastro Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 I certainly do. Carole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 (edited) My rig for this image .. cables hanging down were to be connected .. not the norm ! 😉 Edited November 21, 2019 by Brian28 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApophisAstros Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Great image, Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 1 minute ago, apophisOAS said: Great image, Roger Thanks Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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