ASTRO: M 10 From Colorado Springs

Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min. on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's kind
of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last night
FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

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Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

very nicely done Doug especially the nice definition of the core

how about a bit of RGB?


"Doug W." wrote in message
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Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min. on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's
kind of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last
night FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

here's one shot at a somewhat shorter focal length using the ap180edt

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m10...ap180_page.htm




"Doug W." wrote in message
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Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min. on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's
kind
of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last night
FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

I have not even tryed rotating the filter wheel in years... I wonder if the
filters are in good shape...

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Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

Wow, what a FOV... nice detailed image and the cluster looks great with
space around it.

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Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com
"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
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here's one shot at a somewhat shorter focal length using the ap180edt

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m10...ap180_page.htm




"Doug W." wrote in message
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Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min. on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's
kind
of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last night
FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

I was worried about what looks like an octopus in the upper left of the
image... thought it must be a processing artifact, but I have found a few
other images that seem to show the slightly darker area. I also like that
string of pearls in the same area of the image.

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Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com
"Doug W." wrote in message
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Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min. on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's
kind of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last
night FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

well thanks.

I was trying to find something good about having too short of a focal length
to "do it right" and concluded that having it in a big starfield was sort of
a consolation to not having such a finely detailed core as you did. I'd
prefer to have a closer in view like yours though.

maybe I should try this with the 18" sometime


"Doug W." wrote in message
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Wow, what a FOV... nice detailed image and the cluster looks great with
space around it.

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com
"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
...
here's one shot at a somewhat shorter focal length using the ap180edt

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m10...ap180_page.htm




"Doug W." wrote in message
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Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min.
on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's
kind
of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last
night
FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com

Doug W. wrote:
I was worried about what looks like an octopus in the upper left of the
image... thought it must be a processing artifact, but I have found a few
other images that seem to show the slightly darker area. I also like that
string of pearls in the same area of the image.

I've not had much luck with globulars unless well above the equator. My
seeing hasn't been good enough. I tried for several nights on M12 to no
avail. So far M15 has been my only real success with globulars with the
14". Yours came out well. I guess I should give 10 a try. Haven't
tried it at all. But M55 likely will never be one I image, just way too
low. Ditto the great galaxy M83.

Not sure on the octopus but see the nice string of pearls. Is the
octopus the apparent dark lanes inside the curve of the necklace?

One thing about random stars, they make patterns. If you have no
apparent pattern then you have to have a regular even distribution and
that is about as far from random as you can get. Many years ago I wrote
a program for Hyde Memorial Observatory to generate a computer model of
the Perseid Meteor shower for an astronomy class. I knew in viewing the
shower I'd see pairs and triplets of meteors after a gap of none. I
figured it had something to do with the distribution but I had no idea
how to model it so didn't try. First time I ran it there were the
doubles and triples just like in the real shower. They were just a
product of true randomness. Without it we'd have no constellations!

Rick

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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Looks very good to me. Makes most images of M13 look pale.

Stefan

"Doug W." schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Worked on a faint galaxy for a while but did not get enough time on it
before it got up over the house and seeing went south so I got 20 min. on
M10... a glob that I have not had a chance to do in good seeing... it's
kind of low in the sky for me and seeing is usually poor that low. Last
night FWHM was about 3' in that part of the sky so the image is okay...

Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/m10.htm

--
Regards, Doug W.
www.photonsfate.com