ngc6888 - Narrowband

[NickH]

Rough process, still loads to go, and the OIII channel needs more subs..

Atik 314L at F7.5 on ED80

EQ6/PHD guided DSI-C

Astronomik H-A, OIII and SII filters (in 10 minute subs between rain and clouds)

H-A - 100 mins

OIII - 50 mins

SII - 120 mins

Combined in Maxim DL, and quick process in PS CS2

Not had much done at all, will redo with focus magic etc tomorrow.. conditions largely dire this week, between the rain/clouds and that pesky Moon :-)...

Obsy paid dividends this week...roof on and off more times than I care to mention

[RichieJarvis]

Nice start Nick - Looking great. I never realised quite how much OIII there was round NGC6888 till I saw this image: APOD: 2006 July 6 - NGC 6888: A Tricolor Starfield

Therefore I have to redo mine

[Tim]

Nice FOV Nick, and the Ha clouds around it are coming through nicely.

[barkis]

Awful lot of flesh on that one Mr H.

And it looks like a AN bound candidate.

I never saw your finished Obs. Did pics get posted.?

Ron.

[ncjunk]

There is a heck of an amount of detail on that pic. I have only managed to image the very bright bits of your pic so it is nice to see the level of depth that can be achieved.

Neil C

[NickH]

Thanks guys...wait till you see it when it's really finished :-)...

(there's so much data in the H-A and even SII...quite amazing really...just got to get about another 3 hours in OIII on it)

Obs is done , will post up pics as soon as the wiring is complete and everything is neatly boxed in.. but she's up and running.

TOnight, fitted the new counterweights to the front of the OTA's to balance the SBS rig, two 1KG weights from ebay (wrist weights) strapped on to the fronts, the mount now sounds like it's happy on all axis, but needs a proper test with the autoguider, however, it's balanced now perfectly on every axis.

Also installed the EQMOD setup properly, using a Belkin USB to serial hub and the PC direct mode on the Synscan handset, which worked absolutely flawlessly first time, on my netbook with a powered USB hub. Which means I can also run the external mouse and keypad with that one, as well as it running the imaging camera and filter wheel..

CDC now in control of the entire observatory...going to set up a 30+ point sync set next clear night, and hopefully then hit everything bang on (it's been pretty close to be fair with just the handbox)

Anyway..enough rambling, thanks again for the kind words

[steppenwolf]

This is looking very promising indeed, Nick - some great detail coming through already.

[NickH]

Thank you Steve, it's rough and ready at the mo...decided that processing on a netbook is really not a good idea.. :-)