Caught in a Trap

[CraigT82]

Whilst waiting for the moon to show above our roofline I pointed the Fullerscope at the trapezium to see which components I could pick up... seeing was poor despite a low jetstream speed being forecast on Windy.com. Lots of fast moving clouds about giving away some strong winds at low-mid levels.

Setup: 8.75" Fullerscope on EQ6, APM 2.7x barlow (f/20), Altair 290m, Baader L filter.

1st Image is a 'wide' full sensor shot of 50x1 second exposures at max gain.  I was pretty surprised at how much nebulosity I could see on the preview screen.  This is at 4m focal length and the view was moving all over the place on the screen (this old EQ6 hasn't got a chance in hell of holding the long sewerpipe steady).

2nd image is a much smaller ROI to capture just the cluster.  This is a stack of 100x380ms exposures at max gain. Visible components are labelled.

 

 

Edited January 25, 2021 by CraigT82

[John]

Clever stuff !

G looks a lot tougher than E & F visually - nice to see that it and the H's actually exist though

[CraigT82]

Thanks John.  I'm kicking myself that I didn't put an EP in and compare the view visually. Maybe next time! 

[peter shah]

That threw me for a second it's so close....great job on splitting them 

[Spile]

Thanks for this. I was pleased to get E and F (just) last night.

[newbie alert]

There's no way out??

Why can't you see

what you're doing to me ??