philjay Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) An hours worth with the Atik and ED80 between clouds. PS, Gawd that looks noisy on here. It looks smooth as owt in Tiff and jpeg direct on PC but as soon as I post on here it goes pants. Edited March 31, 2016 by philjay +Graham, Johnnyaardvark and Tweedledee 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 That's nice, is it cropped at all? I like the image scale a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted March 31, 2016 Author Share Posted March 31, 2016 Yeah Mike, just cropped a little to get some stacking rubbish off one corner but its at native FL of the ED80, still haven't got round to sorting the reducer out yet but that would make m51 too small on the chip. Actually truth be told this is a bit small on the chip hence the blockiness. This was a test after re PA of the obs mount as I want to get imaging again with the Meade 127 at F7.5. Now that gives a nice image scale with the Atik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Thats a cracking image there Phil. I like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Looks good. Have you tried PNG format instead? Hopefully will give you better results than JPEG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 It looks good to me too. It that another galaxy you've captured on the same image ? Near the right edge, in the 2 o'clock sort of direction...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 nice start Phil more data more data more data it may be better hosting it on flickr or photobucket as the 500 limit on here does reduce the quality Johnnyaardvark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 pretty philjay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 37 minutes ago, Bino-viewer said: It looks good to me too. It that another galaxy you've captured on the same image ? Near the right edge, in the 2 o'clock sort of direction...... I think it's IC4263, a mag 14 spiral galaxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted March 31, 2016 Author Share Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) TA folks I usually host on Dropbox Steve, tried pulling it in from there but worse so I did it direct, will try PNG next Leigh to give it a go. Yeah more data would be great, try telling that to the clouds that rolled in Yep I think its 4263 as Daz correctly says OK lets try a PNG for a laugh Nah just as bad. Edited March 31, 2016 by philjay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 They are very nice images Phil philjay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 I like that wider field view Phil, still lots of detail. More of an eyepiece view size wise, but with a lot more detail. Maybe a 40" dob would actually show it like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 If I had a 40" dob I would expect a view as good as the picture shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 28 minutes ago, Doc said: If I had a 40" dob I would expect a view as good as the picture shows. Your workshop should be plenty big enough to build one I see you have yet another galaxy in there Phil. IC4278 at mag 15.4 is the slightly fuzzy oval star, second one down from NGC5195 with the triangle of brighter stars to its left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 (edited) Building one is OK it's funding a 40" mirror and moving the bloody thing. I'll stick with 20" a little bit more within reach. Edited April 2, 2016 by Doc Brantuk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman_55 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Nice image, with a few friends in the background if I'm not mistaken. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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