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Friday, March 27, 2009

Leo Trio

Image labeled with MaximDL planetarium
A grop from the center of the image.
Not a bad resolution for a 200mm lens.
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I shot this one 23.03 for optical configuration calibration purposes.
The 200mm les is not a right tool for tiny glaxies, this is a sharp one though.
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Image turned to be kind of nice, so I post it here.
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A Blink animation to show just Galxies.
(Klick the image to see it.)
If could see this area from outside of our home Galaxy, it'll looks like a Starless one.
All the faint dots in the supressed image, are the other Galaxies!
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Details; -Camera, QHY9 - Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8 - Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding - Platform, LX200 GPS 12" - Exposures, 17x150s with IDAS-LP filter, Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sh2-129 in HST palette

Sh2-129 in HST palette, S-II = Red, H-a = Green and O-III = Blue Sh2-129 in "natural" colors, mixed from narrowband data.
I imaged H-alpha for this at night of 24.03.
It can be seen here:
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Last night I managed to shot S-II and O-III channels. The signal is extremely weak, but real.
I have never seen this target in HST palette and there is generally very few images of Sh2-129.
This is a large nebula, the field of view is about five degrees wide in the image.
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Details;
-Camera, QHY9 - Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8 - Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding - Platform, LX200 GPS 12" - Exposures, 7x1200s with 7nm H-alpha filter, 5x300s O-III Binned 4x4 and 5x300s S-IIBinned 4x4 . Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated.

Hs2-129 in HST-palette in a Stereo Pair

Parallel Vision
Cross Vision

- There is very litle information about this object. This Stereo Pair shows how I see its forms. - Viewing istructions, please, look for Right hand side menu.

Sh2-223 & 224

Two, exteremely dim, Supernova remnants in same five degrees field of view.
This target locates in Auriga.
Two hours H-alpha light for this target is way too litle.
There is some very very faint S-II component and maybe a hint of O-III.
A starless version to show the actual nebulosity.
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Details; -Camera, QHY9 - Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8 - Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding - Platform, LX200 GPS 12" - Exposures, 7x1200s with 7nm H-alpha filter, 5x300s O-III Binned 4x4 and 5x300s
S-IIBinned 4x4 . Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated.