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ASTRO: Crab before season ends
This is the first image I have posted here this year
Conditions haven't been good and I have been doing some new things but Saturday I had good conditions and some time to image so I shot 70 minutes in the Crab with broadband The seeing was good, the best I have experienced since September but there was threatening fog and that stopped me after shooting only 7 exposures here's what I got it would look a lot better with 4-5 hours exposure but 70 minutes is all I got. full rez and a color image showing a new method can be found here http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m1_...eg_ed_page.htm |
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ASTRO: Crab before season ends
Richard Crisp wrote: This is the first image I have posted here this year Conditions haven't been good and I have been doing some new things but Saturday I had good conditions and some time to image so I shot 70 minutes in the Crab with broadband The seeing was good, the best I have experienced since September but there was threatening fog and that stopped me after shooting only 7 exposures here's what I got it would look a lot better with 4-5 hours exposure but 70 minutes is all I got. full rez and a color image showing a new method can be found here http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m1_...eg_ed_page.htm Welcome back. It's been a very slow winter here. I've been bitching about nothing but clouds yet everyone else has had it far worse it seems. Doug's had nothing but bad weather, Stefan's had it nearly as bad with only a couple new images. George N hasn't been heard from since the heavy snows hit NY. Larry has been held up on the sun due to weather and it's being at the bottom of the cycle so not as much going on but boy are the shots he does get spectacular. A few others from time to time and a flurry with the eclipse from those east of here. It was over by the time it cleared my trees and still below the roof line of the observatory anyway. So you haven't missed much. So you keeping secret this color stuff until fall? Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: Crab before season ends
Richard,
very impressive result, one of the best unfiltered shots of the crab I have seen (I think this was without any narrow band filters?). Good to see you back again, most of us seem to have been plagued with bad weather... Stefan "Richard Crisp" schrieb im Newsbeitrag .. . This is the first image I have posted here this year Conditions haven't been good and I have been doing some new things but Saturday I had good conditions and some time to image so I shot 70 minutes in the Crab with broadband The seeing was good, the best I have experienced since September but there was threatening fog and that stopped me after shooting only 7 exposures here's what I got it would look a lot better with 4-5 hours exposure but 70 minutes is all I got. full rez and a color image showing a new method can be found here http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m1_...eg_ed_page.htm |
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ASTRO: Crab before season ends
Good FOV for the Crab with your FR. Nice detail and stars too.
-- Regards, Doug W. www.photonsfate.com -- "Richard Crisp" wrote in message .. . This is the first image I have posted here this year Conditions haven't been good and I have been doing some new things but Saturday I had good conditions and some time to image so I shot 70 minutes in the Crab with broadband The seeing was good, the best I have experienced since September but there was threatening fog and that stopped me after shooting only 7 exposures here's what I got it would look a lot better with 4-5 hours exposure but 70 minutes is all I got. full rez and a color image showing a new method can be found here http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m1_...eg_ed_page.htm |
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ASTRO: Crab before season ends
"Richard Crisp" wrote in message .. . This is the first image I have posted here this year Conditions haven't been good and I have been doing some new things but Saturday I had good conditions and some time to image so I shot 70 minutes in the Crab with broadband The seeing was good, the best I have experienced since September but there was threatening fog and that stopped me after shooting only 7 exposures here's what I got it would look a lot better with 4-5 hours exposure but 70 minutes is all I got. full rez and a color image showing a new method can be found here http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m1_...eg_ed_page.htm Very nice image, Richard. And welcome back. I am glad that you decided not to stay away for good. George |
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ASTRO: Crab before season ends
Hey thanks for the nice comments, it feels good to have some images to share
again (finally). It is spring here in northern California and we seem to be showing signs of better imaging weather coming up. It was quite good on sat night when I got that crab lum shot but the seeing has been softer since but still clear I've been unable to shoot many images for the same reason as the rest of us, the weather's not been on my side but I will say that it is far better this year than last imaging wise. But the Jan/Feb/March timeframe is typically rainy for us. Last year it kept up until mid May but I had those two 18" Cassegrains I had just completed construction so that surely cursed the weather for a bit longer than usual :-). As I said when I checked out, I had some new things I wanted to go do so the time off was used productively. I had to travel to Asia for 10 days in mid Jan (the weather was clear for 7 of the nights I was gone and it was in the new moon phase!) and I was on the road for two weeks in Feb too. So there's not been much chance for imaging for me. Stefan, yes that was a luminance image and I think there's IR blocking but I can't remember for sure. Had it been an emission line image the fog would not have been visible running the high "Q" filters. The Crab is really unique in that there are essentially two nebulae in one: there's the middle part with the broadband synchrotron light and the fog and pulsar etc, and then there's the filamentary shell confining the inner nebula. The filaments are basically all line emission and the core is basically all broadband. it is quite interesting to deconstruct it exploiting those characteristics and then reassemble it as a composite shot. You can manipulate the lines separately from the broadband and better accentuate or supress what interests you. I read in one book that "there are two kinds of astronomy: The Crab Nebula and everything else." Based on my studies on the many rainy nights I've had this year and while travelling in Asia during the middle of Jan, and the two weeks I was travelling in Feb, I tend to agree. It is a most fascinating object and it is truly unique, if only in the Northern Hemisphere. But it is waning at the moment and now that I have a stretch of possible imaging conditions I am really trying to get that killer shot applying all that I have learned and included in that color image at the bottom of the page. I assembled that with lower resolution data that was the only thing I could capture when the conditions permitted: the AP180 for the emission line stuff and the big cass for the closeup of the core. I did them at the same time but the AP180 with the 6303 just doesn't zoom in like the CM10 on the big cassegrain: the Cass has twice the focal length and the pixels are 2/3 the size on the linear dimension. It would have been better to swap cameras but there were some other considerations that made that an impractical and therefore risky thing to try on the only good night I had so far this year. Rick I am just not quite ready to talk about what I did differently because I need to have something to talk about at the conference :-) But really I want to shoot some of the spring galaxies and summer nebulae so I can do a quick survey to see what I can find that looks cool. The winter stuff is more or less in the trees at my home by about 11pm and the galaxies are on the rise at that time. Then just before sunrise the summer nebulae are getting into position if the fog hasn't moved in as it so often does. Give me a bit more time to work on this stuff and get the kinks out first. "Richard Crisp" wrote in message .. . This is the first image I have posted here this year Conditions haven't been good and I have been doing some new things but Saturday I had good conditions and some time to image so I shot 70 minutes in the Crab with broadband The seeing was good, the best I have experienced since September but there was threatening fog and that stopped me after shooting only 7 exposures here's what I got it would look a lot better with 4-5 hours exposure but 70 minutes is all I got. full rez and a color image showing a new method can be found here http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m1_...eg_ed_page.htm |
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