Eighty minutes of Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

[ASIGN_Baz]

A very successful night.

Over eighty minutes of prime-focus exposure on this very faint target near Orion's belt. I still haven't got the guide camera yet, so this was manually guided the whole time on an EQ6 mount using an illuminated reticule eyepiece.

The problem now is saving from HUGE .Tiff's to reasonabley sized JPEG's for posting around on the net without suffering too many artefacts or becoming lossy......

Camera: Orion Starshoot Pro Color DSI

Telescope: Skywatcher ED120 APO

Guidescope: Skywatcher ED80 APO W/2X Barlow

Hope you like it!

Baz.

[barkis]

Very vivid Baz. I like it. You have really got right in there, I can almost feel the heat from those suns.

The Horsey stands out well.

You managed OK with the manual guiding too.

Ron. :salute:

[Psychobilly]

80 minutes manually guided

Billy...

[rikyuu]

wow excellent image, I've never done guiding, but manual guiding for that long must take some dedication.

hmm, 80 minute exposure.....no wonder I wasn't getting much with my 2.5sec exposure the other night! :oops:

[centroid]

Nice piece of work Baz, and a nice resut to show for it.

Dave

[Sam]

80 minutes manually guided! you're a legend! :shock:

Great image too! The horsey stands out heaps with loads of details.

Sam

[ASIGN_Baz]

Thanks heaps folks. I have left the camera and scope parked ready to get some more exposures of this beautiful object and add them to this one.

Cheers,

Baz.

[MikeD]

Nice job.

Great result on the guiding, how long was each sub?

Mike.

[steppenwolf]

Well done, Baz and hat off to you for manually guiding for that long!

[roundycat]

Baz, as regards posting and what size, I never post anything over 1000 pix wide as it is a waste of time. If your 'viewer' has a biggish (1024x768) screen it will be about right and if it is being viewed on a smallish lap top it will appear big and you have to scroll to see all of it. That causes people to moan a lot. At the end of the day we are all looking at monitors with a screen res of around 85-90 dpi and that really places the limit.

Dennis

[ASIGN_Baz]

Baz, as regards posting and what size, I never post anything over 1000 pix wide as it is a waste of time. If your 'viewer' has a biggish (1024x768) screen it will be about right and if it is being viewed on a smallish lap top it will appear big and you have to scroll to see all of it. That causes people to moan a lot. At the end of the day we are all looking at monitors with a screen res of around 85-90 dpi and that really places the limit.

Dennis

Any chance a mod can re-size it for me? I would, but it appears I can't edit my original post....

Baz.

[tooth_dr]

Hope this helps until the mods come along.

Lovely image!

Adam

[ASIGN_Baz]

Thanks again guys. Mike the subs were each 30 seconds with 10 second breaks in between.

Cheers,

Baz.