M97 - Owl Nebula in Ha/OIII

[RichieJarvis]

Hi All,

Captured this across a couple of nights (hasn't the weather been Rubbish until very recently??) - Ha on April 1st and on April 18th. The seeing on the 18th was absolutely amazing (Lightbucket was over with his dob - saw several galaxies I've never seen before - wow!)

Anyway, here is the result - I think it came out very well :

Date: 2009-04-01 & 2009-04-18

Location: South Common Observatory

Scope: Astro Professional 102ED @ F/7

Camera: Starlight Xpress SXV-H9

Guide Scope: Williams Optics Zenithstar 66mm

Guide Camera: SX Guidehead

Exposure (Ha): 30 x 300 seconds

Exposure (OIII): 16 x 600 seconds

Thanks for looking!

Richie

[Psychobilly]

Indeed it has RJ...

I'm hoping to get a squint through a 16" at SGL4....

Peter....

[albedo0.39]

Hi Richie - great image - almost ghostly... Q:- what is the circular artifact at 8 o'clock in the image ?

[jgs001]

Very nice Richie. Sorry I missed out on the 18th, sounds like you all had fun.

[Doc]

I think it came out very well indeed.

The owl's eye's are very clear indeed.

[RichieJarvis]

Thanks guys..

The artifact - I can barely see that on my monitor! Just checked my monitor calibration, and its accurate.... I can see it when I highlight the image though, so its there. Must be a dust bunny which the flats haven't taken out quite properly - I'll have to re-subtract the flats Thanks for spotting that!

Cheers,

Richie

[Sam]

That's a cracker Richie! very nice detail and quite bright.

Sam

[Dangerous-Dave]

It's a corker Richie.