Heart and Soul from Kelling

[SteveL]

Another image from the Kelling star party. Due to the massive field of view on this, PoleAlignMax bombs out with some error message, and Pinpoint gets a bit upset too. As such, I wasnt able to use CCD Commander to plate solve and recenter at the correct co-ords… so the image is not quite where I`d like it to be, but it will do.

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Borg 60 @ f/3.8

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 7 x 900s, Baader 7nm Ha (51 bias, 51 flats)

Orchestrated: CDD Commander

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight

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[Ant]

Looks good Steve, that is one huge FOV

I hope you don't mind me saying but it looks noisy to me. But that aside there's lots of detail in there mate - especially around the "heart".

I can see why your happy with it. Will you continue and add more data from home?

Cheers

Ant

[SteveL]

Maybe a little over sharpened.... I think you are right. If I get time, i`ll re-do that part of the processing

[Shibby]

Ah Kelling, of course - that (along with clear sky at w/e) explains the massive influx of images! Fantastic and deep image. Suppose there is a bit of noise at full res, but you've got so much signal I'm sure you can sort that!

[Coco]

Looks interesting to me.. That little Borg's a gem..

I wish I hadn't visited SCS's website this evening..

Talk about eye candy...

[Catanonia]

Getting into wide field my self and this is a cracking image I want to try myself.

Do you mind me asking, what is the total focal length all combined with the Borg 60.

Reason I ask, is I have just got my WO66 up and running bog standard at 388mm and need a reference pointer other than CCDCalc.

Ta,.

[SteveL]

i believe its about 228mm

[ollypenrice]

Big image and deep with lovely boiling clouds outlying the familiar stuff. Thinks..must get some Ha for mine, too.

Olly