PIER-05 IC348

Welcome Brian to the club. I'm Mike van den Berg from The Netherlands. I'm doing astrophotography for more than 30 years. I had a backyard observatory but stopped the hobby in 2016. Due to the severe weather and light polution is imaging from my home observatory an mission impossible. So in 2020 I decided to resume my hobby but on a remote observatory. I choose to go to Roboscopes. I first visited the site in 2018 and saw by my own eyes the gorgeous night sky.  Your proposal regarding the object  is beautiful. I have imaged a couple of weeks ago the same object with pier 14. A Takahashi FSQ106 and a ZWO 60 megapixel cmos monochrome camera.

hi Mike,

 Thank you for the welcome.  I visited the Netherlands many times during my career as an astronomer (mostly Dwingeloo).  Thanks for you support, but I notice that Vikander has beaten me to it (albeit with a different name).  He is proposing a 2 x 2  mosaic (6hrs per panel) of the whole region.  It should look good. 

I must say that I am  impressed at the quality of the data in the download area.  I have had a look at the latest M33, Cave Nebula and Sea Horse nebula data.  The Sea House nebula data is significantly affected by cloud, but the Cave Nebula is mostly great and, although half the M33 had varying amount of cloud affecting it, there is still 90 x 120s sub of high-quality data.

Kudos to the technical support team.   Although my home site is quite dark (Bortlle 3) and usually goods good weather (1 in 4 nights useable) this winter has been terrible.  So I thought I would keep improving by using a site that enjoyed better weather - and had access to those northern targets inaccessible to. me in the Deep South.

CS Brian 

Yeah, Cloud is the bane of our lives

October/November is our first of two cloudy/Rain seasons so without ridiculous checking of data we do tend to get some cloud in some of the subs.

Hopefully we take enough data to cover this anyway

March to October or normally brill and we get some mixed months in between, It's normally October/November and late Feb-March/April but with Global warming being what it is over the last few years the exact time tends to skip around a little.

HTH

Steve

Hi all, I would like to withdraw my IC348 request, since I think it will largely be done as part of the Perseus Molecular Cloud mosaic, already in the queue.

Instead I would like to propose a 2 x 4hr mosaic on the Jellyfish/Sh2-252 region.  I have checked framing in Telescopius and it look pretty photogenic.  I propose to drop back to 120sec  because of the bright star next to the Jellyfish.  I could go shorter, but life is too short to reducie a mountain of subframes , particularly if drizzling.

What do you all think?

Brian

Hi all, I would like to withdraw my IC348 request, since I think it will largely be done as part of the Perseus Molecular Cloud mosaic, already in the queue.

Instead I would like to propose a 2 x 4hr mosaic on the Jellyfish/Sh2-252 region.  I have checked framing in Telescopius and it look pretty photogenic.  I propose to drop back to 120sec  because of the bright star next to the Jellyfish.  I could go shorter, but life is too short to reducie a mountain of subframes , particularly if drizzling.

What do you all think?

Brian

Hi Brian,

I have removed the IC348 entry for you. Jellyfish is always a nice choice.

Thanks so much. Looking forward to putting the Jellyfish and MonkeyHead together. 

Brian