My Herschel 2500 Attempt

[OregonEAA]

Since Slooh images develop on screen and no other processing is done, I do think of these as EAA image:

Imaged on Slooh Canary Islands #1

04/29/20

Canary One Half Meter
This is Slooh's premier telescope. Its 20" mirror gives it incredible light
gathering capabilities. It's ideal for larger faint objects such as galaxies
and nebulae.
T1-HM-508
Planewave
CDK20
(508mm)
Wide-Field DSO CCD imaging. Corrected Dall-Kirkham 508mm (20")
3454mm
(135.98")
f/6.8 None f/6.8 FLI PL09000
Kodak KAF-
09000
Astrodon Generation II ESeries
Luminance, Red, Green, Blue,
Hα, U-Band (Bessel), I-Band
(Bessel)
0.717 arcsecs/pixel 0° (North-Up) 37x37
Binning 1x1: 3056x3056
Binning 2x2: 1528x1528

Herchel 4216
Magnitude: 11.00 B
Size: 7.8' x 1.8'
V(r):  133.0 km/sec
B-V: 0.98
U-B: 0.52
Mean Surface Br. 22.0 Mag/arcsec²
Class: Spiral b
Hubble Type: SABb
Orientation: Edge on
Position Angle:  20°
Status: known galaxy

H I-35, observed by William Herschel on 1784 Apr 17.
 

[Marvin Jenkins]

Hi OregonEEA, always good to hear from astronomers across the pond. What amazing observational sites you must have in your country.

Now I must admit I do not practice EEVA but I follow this section avidly, as it something I wish to pursue in the future.
 

I was also unaware of slooh Canary Islands #1, can you give me more info. I am of course aware that the Canary Islands are home to some amazing professional and amateurs scopes.

Marv

[OregonEAA]

Slooh is a not-for-profit organization that has telescopes in Chile, the Canary Islands, and soon in the UAE. Slooh.com will give you the whole story. Because I have limited open sky at home I use Slooh to supplement my attempt at the Herschels (and other things of course). It's about $25 US a month and on most nights I get over an hours time on various scopes. 

Edited April 30, 2020 by OregonEAA

[Marvin Jenkins]

Thank you very much for the info, I will look into it. Access to big scopes for the price of basic cable tv.... I would rather have big scopes than reality tv.

Cheers Marv

[Bobby1970]

I've looked on the Slooh.com site a couple of times. It would seem that annual subscription starts around $100, which o was tempted with. I'm unsure of what exactly that would get me tho. It sounds as though I could grab some images with even this level of subscription, or am I wrong?

[OregonEAA]

Yes, but it is on a limited database and I don't think you can drive Fits files. The website has been redone and its easier to find out what each level includes.

[OregonEAA]

I was going for Herschel 4248 on the 20" PlaneWave in the Canary Islands, and got M106 as an Easter Egg. Here is one 6 minute exposure of 3l and RGB combined in Fitworks as the PNG was, well wasted photons.