waassaabee
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I was using CCD Calculator the other day to check a few targets for the AT8RC when I ran across the Foxface Nebula... At the end of my very enlightening session last night I figured I'd burn an hour on this one as an experiment. It really needs a bunch more time, and we all know what the jpg compression does to our masterpieces, but here it is! (I'm going back soon...)
NGC1788 - Reflection nebula in Orion
AT8RC/modded 350D
ISO1600 3 minutes 23 frames
CGEM/miniBorg50/Q Guider/PHD
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Gary
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Jerry Lodriguss
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Hi Gary,
That's a really cool shot of a little photographed object, congratulations on a fine picture!
Jerry
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waassaabee
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Thanks Jerry! It is a neat little neb with lots of potential. It's definitely on my hit list for the future.
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Gary
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lawrie
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Nice shot Gary, tons of stuff in there.
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Ya thats a cool mix of stuff , well done.
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waassaabee
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Thanks gents!! I'll be reprocessing this as I think there is more color to be had. This was done this morning on one cup of coffee and four hours sleep.
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Gary
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Mike Clemens
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Looks smooth Gary, nice shot
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waassaabee
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Thanks Mike, Noise Ninja to the rescue!! I'm thinking when it starts rising a little earlier, I'll devote a night or two as there's a lot of faint dust and detail.
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Gary
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KevinUK
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Hey I see the fox's face! That's a new one to me and I've added it to my shortly to do list.
Add another hours data and the difference will be 500%!
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waassaabee
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Hey I see the fox's face! That's a new one to me and I've added it to my shortly to do list.
Add another hours data and the difference will be 500%!
I'm not sure how you're looking at it, because I presented it this was as I saw the face looking slightly to the right. After I went to the image I originally saw and compared (fox looking slightly to the left), mine needs to be rotated CW 90 degrees and more (lots) data added.. I'm thinking I'd like to have 3 to 4 hours data on this one.
Here is R. Jay Gabany's image from Ron Wodaski's CCD Calculator.
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Gary
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Beautiful image Gary!
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waassaabee
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Many thanks Javier! It's a blast being able to image again after a 4 month respite. Even more fun to have a new scope at the same time... 
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Gary
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waassaabee
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I reprocessed, rotated and cropped it a bit. Let me know what you think!!
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Gary
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xatamec
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Hi Gary,
This is a cool shot. It is a very beautiful nebula that I didn't know.
Sergi
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waassaabee
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Sergi,
Thanks!! It seems to be a fairly unknown, or at least unphotographed nebula. I stumbled on it completely by accident... 
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Gary
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Cool shot. Second one has a tad more color so the dark stuff stands out more.
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Nicola
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Hi Gary,
very nice image on an unusual target. Where you shooting at full focal length of your scope or with a focal reducer?
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waassaabee
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Tom, Thanks.. actually the second one I just took my time! The first shot was the 'morning after' and only four hours sleep. Plus I was a bit anxious to get results, so anxious the orientation was 90 degrees off!! 
Nicola, Great to hear from you! This is full focal length of the AT8RC, 1625mm f/8. I have a TV x.8 FR (TRF2008) that I want to try sometime, but I'm still getting comfortable with the scope and checking collimation and such.
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Gary
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Mike C
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Great image, Gary.
Never heard of the Foxface Nebula before, but I love the quirkly name so it's going on my to-do list for this winter!
Thanks for posting.
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Very cool shot, Gary. I like the second version too. No question it's a fox. 
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waassaabee
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Thanks Mike!! I have a feeling that CN is going to have a few Foxface nebula images floating around...
Nick, Thanks my friend! Your 9.25 w/FR should do this nicely. BTW Saturday night was crud here...
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Gary
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Great Shot Gary!
I have never seen this one imaged before.
I love seeing new images through the AT8RC because i cant use mine  .
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waassaabee
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Thanks Sal! It was seeing images from owners such as yourself that got me off the fence and on the phone to those fabulous folks at Astronomics.
Whadya mean you can't use yours?
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Gary
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Thanks Sal! It was seeing images from owners such as yourself that got me off the fence and on the phone to those fabulous folks at Astronomics.
Whadya mean you can't use yours?
Im at college and couldn't bring my telescope with me.
hopefully ill get some good images when i get home for thanksgiving 
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waassaabee
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Im at college and couldn't bring my telescope with me.
hopefully ill get some good images when i get home for thanksgiving
Being at school is a good thing, so focus on that target for a while. The stars will be there tomorrow...
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Gary
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