M33 in the Baby Q.

[ollypenrice]

Here's the old Pinwheel whirring away. Lum 3.5 hours, colours 80 mins of each all unbinned. I've gone off binning and would rather just take more time. I would have a ludicrous 7 hours of Lum but for the fact that for some reason all the lum was filed in an 'Unknown File Format.' Has anyone else had this? It seems to happen if I restart a run without changing the file name, as when you start shooting and realize you still have the focus window open. I just forgot this time. Rather than spend days on the net trying to work out how to open them I just did a reshoot last night. GRRRR...

Olly

[Whippy]

That really, REALLY nice Olly, superb stuff .

Tony..

[Paxo]

Another stunning image Olly, the widefield setting gives it all a great sense of perspective you don't usually see in images of M33. Thanks for sharing.

Steve..

[roundycat]

Beautiful picture. What was the file name of the file you couldn't open? I inadvertently saved a file, I think in Maxim, with two dots in the file name. It saved it but then wouldn't open it.

Dennis

[Taff]

Nice capture Olly' great details of the galaxy.Mark

[brendant]

Another fantastic capture Olly, beautifully processed.

Brendan

[Ben Ritchie]

Spectacular image Olly, great colour - add in some H-alpha and you'll get that M33 'bling' look (viz. Gendler et al.) but I like it this way, more natural

[Aza]

Wowsers, gorgeous image!

[Rossco72]

Great Image Olly, well worth publishing

[Roy]

Shame about the lost data Olly but a great image despite that

[steppenwolf]

Stunning image, Olly and some great colour

[SteveL]

Now THAT is a nice M33. Sometimes I see ones that are too "noisy", others too smnoothed, other just too dim, but that one is just about right in my eyes.

(Another object I`m determined to get this time round.... )

[RobH]

Perfect

Cheers

Rob

[ncjunk]

Great image!

Neil C

[oceanheadted]

Oooh that's really nice! Well done Olly!

[MartinB]

That is spectacularly beautiful Olly, that's your best image yet for me. What camera did you use?

[ollypenrice]

Nice of you to say so Martin, thanks. I used our Atik 4000 mono, which I must say I love. I have a promising Andromeda in the pipeline too and I think it is down to no binning and oodles of exposure time.

Olly

[MartinB]

And the dark skies Olly!! Have you cropped it? I was thinking the image scale with my FSQ would be too small for M33 and a bit undersampled, how wrong can you be!

As for the binning, I'm sure you are right at this focal length. I think binning comes into it's own beyond 1000 - 1500mm though.

I have galaxies in mind when I come to Les Granges next Easter!

[ollypenrice]

Galaxies Sir? Oh yes, we have them in stock.

The image is slightly cropped but M33 fits nicely on, for instance, a 285 chip with an FSQ106. Tom O'Donoghue did a beauty here.

Olly.