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simonnickydowning

Friday, 11 September 2020

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I struggled with this a bit, and the lack in my technique and ability has not helped at all. There was not a great deal of OIII, as far as I could determine and it seemed a little noisy generally, but I have done my best. Really good data and it was great to be able to try this.

Pier 7 is a William Optics FLT132 F5.6 APO, with a QSI 660-WSG Mono CCD camera, all on a Paramount MX mount. This was a Ha and OIII image, with 12 Has and 10 OIIIs used, all at 10 minutes long each - an integration time of 3 hours and 40 minutes.

Have a good day everyone.

Simon

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Phil

3 years ago

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Still looks nice, I doub't i'd get anything out of it

Phil McCauley
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NoMoreCloudyNights

3 years ago

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G'Day Simon,

That is a nice scope but quite challenging I think for dimmer objects. The few images of this I've looked at elsewhere tended to use Ha combined with RGB, and also quite lengthy integration times. It's very intriguing nonetheless and forces you to concentrate to look for more in the image. Could likely be a bird or maybe a Hawk jet carrying out a manoeuvre with red smoke trailing behind it.

Thanks for sharing,

Regards, Ray

Ray
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simonnickydowning

3 years ago

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Thanks so much Ray for your ongoing support and indeed humour! It brightens the day. I processed only what I was given for this object, so I think additional data would have been very useful. Your artistic eye never fails and you have spotted something else in there - it is amazing the odd shapes created by floating gas in space : )

Take care.
Simon!