Images From 05/04/2007

The clusters are nice and the M57 widefield is nicely framed.

The detail in M57 in the narrow field image is superb. I see a very small tracking error top to bottom but its barely noticeable.

And it seems liike you've gotten your colimation woes sorted.

Excellent images!

Dave

Very nice images Michael! That one of the Ring Nebula is superb. I played around with it for a few minutes and managed to tease out the faint barred-spiral galaxy IC 1296. It's a magnitude 15 object and in the image here it appears just to the left of the label.

All the best,

John

John,
I had noticed that alright. It was clear on each of the individual images if I pushed the processing. The fact that I had only 4 images to combine before the fog rolled in meant that I couldn't show it as much as I would like. I'll just need alot more images and it should then pop into view.
Cheers,

that ring nebula is very cool! great shot! can that be viewed with a 6" ( not photographed). is it just a faint fuzzy through a 6" SCT scope?

Yep, you should be able to see that in a 6" scope alright.

I see a very small tracking error top to bottom but its barely noticeable.

Didn't see this last night - probably as it was 4:30am and I could barely see the computer screen, let alone tracking errors! But yes, the brighter stars are slightly elongated. Must be a bit more careful next time.

Love the M57 Michael! Looks like you had a very successful night.

Trev