An astronomical interlude

[leecetheartist]

It's been the New Moon, so a good time to get out there with the telescope!

Got some quite good detail with Centaurus A.

 

 

I rode this image into dangerous territory last night, because I ran out of space in the telescope, oops, but still it turned out pretty well. Remind me to clear off the scope this arvo! 

 

The first time I processed the image it was pretty bright, it didn't look very natural, so I did this version. I might post the lurid one later.

 

So who's ready to see the Carina Nebula I did a couple of nights ago after this? Only an hour or so but you'll get to see us Southern Hemisphere types' consolation prize for not having a pole star.

 

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

That looks awesome!

[leecetheartist]

I and the night sky thank you!

[tcpip]

That's beautiful and clear!

I guess not much light pollution around, eh?

[leecetheartist]

Thanks!

I am in the Perth suburbs and that's where these photos were taken. Street lights everywhere and the city's skyglow. But this is the beauty of these smart telescopes, they deal quite well under these conditions. When we saw one bloke was getting pictures of nebula from his apartment in Tokyo, we knew that they were something to pay attention to.

Under darker skies they perform even better.

[tcpip]

The wonders of modern technology! I admit the only telescopes I deal with these days tend to be data (so much data) from radio telescopes. But such is the nature of my work.

[leecetheartist]

It does the tracking, it's got an inbuilt star atlas and it does the stacking on the fly - it's lousy for planetary but you can't have everything. Not bad for 800AUD.