Guest ollypenrice Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 These have been done recently with our guests, using the twin Tak tandem which has the advantage of incredible speed. The North America and LBN 1333 are single night captures while NGC6914 took two nights. It's very faint and has time-sapping dark nebulosity. For a glorious week after the next full moon Tom O'Donoghue will be here and we'll have three 106 Taks and full frame cameras on the go. Madness! LBN1333. Lots of stars!! NGC6914 This is an interesting object closer up; http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Les-Granges/i-FrpWHL7/0/O/NGC6914%20HaRGB%20WEB.jpg And needing no introduction from me... What's it like back home at the moment? Down here it is downright cold for the month of August, though still hot enough to swim in the lake etc. Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 lovely as usual Olly, weather in the midlands is very warm at the moment, was in my obsy till 1am this morning in shorts and t shirt, but darker nights are starting to roll in at last Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 For a glorious week after the next full moon Tom O'Donoghue will be here and we'll have three 106 Taks and full frame cameras on the go. Madness! Perhaps i should visit then you would have 4 5 if you count the tak 130 lovely images as usual Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ollypenrice Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 For a glorious week after the next full moon Tom O'Donoghue will be here and we'll have three 106 Taks and full frame cameras on the go. Madness! Perhaps i should visit then you would have 4 5 if you count the tak 130 lovely images as usual Sheila Come on down! Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Absolutely superb detailed images. I've not found another image of the first one anywhere on the internet, and I love to see these unusual ones!I think LBN1333 is actually LDN1333.In the early 1960's Dr. Beverly T. Lynds studied the Palomar Sky Survey plates and produced a catalog of 1125 bright nebulae, the LBN catalog, and another of 1802 dark nebulae, the LDN catalog.Lynds Dark Nebula 1333 is roughly between epsilon Cassiopeia and Polaris positioned at RA 02 26 04 and DEC +75 28.5. This is one of the northernmost dark nebulae at +75 degrees but of course it is not too far north of the galactic plane where you would expect to find most of these types of object silhouetted against the dust and gas. Perhaps Olly will correct me if I have that wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ollypenrice Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Absolutely superb detailed images. I've not found another image of the first one anywhere on the internet, and I love to see these unusual ones! I think LBN1333 is actually LDN1333. In the early 1960's Dr. Beverly T. Lynds studied the Palomar Sky Survey plates and produced a catalog of 1125 bright nebulae, the LBN catalog, and another of 1802 dark nebulae, the LDN catalog. Lynds Dark Nebula 1333 is roughly between epsilon Cassiopeia and Polaris positioned at RA 02 26 04 and DEC +75 28.5. This is one of the northernmost dark nebulae at +75 degrees but of course it is not too far north of the galactic plane where you would expect to find most of these types of object silhouetted against the dust and gas. Perhaps Olly will correct me if I have that wrong. I think I just double hit the '3' key! I make the small blue reflection nebula LBN133, still. Possibly the dark one, or one of them, may be an LDN object as well. It seems likely. They also have vdB identities. Glad you like them. They make a nice change and finding the starfield so dense, when you consider the view at the eyepiece, is pretty remarkable. Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Wow, they are just stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 another stack of stunning images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Thanks Olly, just seen your SGL post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Great images as usual from you Olly ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Very nice set of images there Olly - thanks for sharing (and inspiring) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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