Astrophotography: Anteres Nebulosity w/ M4 Globular Cluster

[CptTrips]

Just finished processing this from last night.  Clouds were coming in off and on so I wasn't sure it would be savable.

Scope: Televue 102mm
Camera: Modified Canon Rebel XTi

~2.5 hrs of 5 min sub-frames stacked, processed in ImagesPlus

http://JasonIrby.zenfolio.com/p557407765/e272ab243

Clear Skies,
Wab
http://jasonirby.net/astronomy

[Jenks]

Very nice! Would be nice if you could see the colors of the orion in real time.

Lunt and a Televue, do you have a Takahashi too?! 

[Maverick]

Outstanding shots Wabbit, thanks.
 

[JB88]

i find this kind of work and the dedication that goes into it quite fascinating.

i hope you will continue to show us more work as you complete it.  always a pleasure.

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88

[WilldCrd]

butterING AWESOME!!
I spent a lil time looking at some of your other pics. I gotta say they are really really good.
Soo after looking at them I got to wondering, what would be a good "starter" scope be? I've always been fascinated by this kind of stuff and I'm really itching to get into it.
Any advice would be much apreciated <by me, my wife.....not so much  >

Stay Frosty....

[ghi]

Great pics! that's history,watching a star is like  watching in the past ,100s or  1000s of years ago, maybe some of those stars blew up 100s of years ago, must be some kind of little green creatures up there, it's too big, we can't live alone if this huge maison. I believe the soul, non-material energy comes from somewhere up there, our body  just dust from the earth accommodating that energy .

[TOMCAT21]

nice pics.. well done..

[MORAY37]

Just finished processing this from last night.  Clouds were coming in off and on so I wasn't sure it would be savable.

Scope: Televue 102mm
Camera: Modified Canon Rebel XTi

~2.5 hrs of 5 min sub-frames stacked, processed in ImagesPlus

http://JasonIrby.zenfolio.com/p557407765/e272ab243

Clear Skies,
Wab
http://jasonirby.net/astronomy

Jason, Very nice shots. 

Also, I really like your observatory setup.Is it your own personal build and design?

 When I had a lot more time (High School, early 90's), I used to be really into deep sky.  I have a few of my hand drawn Messier Objects framed in my office at work, using my old 8" reflector.  Another hobby I always want to get back into, yet life never seems to allow for it.  Growing up sucks!

[moot]

Yep, IIRC he built it himself

[Hajo]

Outstanding!  Really places life in perspective doesn't it?

Great job Wab

keep'em coming!

The pictures you posted gave me the personal feeling of walking on a Beach of the Pacific.  Having a straight pin
and walking down to the water entering ankle deep.  Taking the pin bending over and inserting the pin in the water.
After withdrawing the pin checking for the hole I made.  Wasn't one. 

[CptTrips]

Lunt and a Televue, do you have a Takahashi too?! 

No.  But I'm buying a lotto ticket every week.  You never know. 

Of course paying for it is only half the problem.  They have something like a 1.5 year waiting list to get if after you've put down your deposit!

Wab

[CptTrips]

i find this kind of work and the dedication that goes into it quite fascinating.

i hope you will continue to show us more work as you complete it.  always a pleasure.

<S>

88

Thank you sir.   

And I find your avatar equally facinating. 

Wab

[CptTrips]

butterING AWESOME!!
I spent a lil time looking at some of your other pics. I gotta say they are really really good.
Soo after looking at them I got to wondering, what would be a good "starter" scope be? I've always been fascinated by this kind of stuff and I'm really itching to get into it.
Any advice would be much apreciated <by me, my wife.....not so much  >

Stay Frosty....

Well it all depends on the specifics of what you are interested in doing.  However, if it were me, and I was just starting out...

If I was wanting to start astrophotography:
I'd get a decent Computerized 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a wedge mount.
For a starter camera I'd go with something mike Meade's "Deep Sky Imager Pro" for dim fuzzy targets and a cheap "Toucam Pro" for planetary stuff.

However, if I just wanted simplicity and only for visual observing:
I'd get the biggest Meade or Celestron Dobsonian I could afford.  Apeture is king.

Clear Skies,
Wab

[CptTrips]

Jason, Very nice shots. 

Also, I really like your observatory setup.Is it your own personal build and design?

 When I had a lot more time (High School, early 90's), I used to be really into deep sky.  I have a few of my hand drawn Messier Objects framed in my office at work, using my old 8" reflector.  Another hobby I always want to get back into, yet life never seems to allow for it.  Growing up sucks!

Thanks. 

The observatory is my own design and construction.   Amazing really since I had almost no idea what I was doing (Damit Jim, I'm a programmer not a carpenter!).   I even did the welding for rails that the roof rolls on myself.

However, its a totally different feeling coming out for a weekend hoping to do some astrophotography, see clouds rolling in and shug, and close the roof and everything is ready for a try again next weekend as opposed to standing there looking at 300 lbs of crap you just hauled 100 miles out of town, spent an hour to setup and an hour to align, and have to tear it all down again, pack it up and haul it all back into town.  Only to have to do the whole thing again next weekend. 

Wab

[deSelys]

Obviously photoshopped!





























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