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[Login] Forum Archives · Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Telescope Specific Forums >> Meade ETX Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK summer starclusters - fabulous evening !       #3220811 - 07/16/09 03:34 AM Attachment (36 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Fabulous three hour imaging session through midnight last night when all the gear [Meade ETX70 OTA+Starlight Xpress MX9 piggyback on classic LX200] worked to perfection Only intended to target the faint comet C/218 Linear F7 in Virgo low in the SW but got carried away Here's a sampler - globular Pal 7 in Serpens at mag 10.5 in standard 200s exposure [10x20s subs] with no flat/darks or optical filters used and processed, at the telescope, via the SX controlling software - more to follow -------------------- Nytecam 51N 0.1W Meade 30cm LX200+ETX-70+e-finder+C8+Ha+CaK PSTs SBIG SGS+homebuilt spectrographs Starlight SXVF_M9+Lodestar CCDs/Canon 300D DSLR/Fuji E550 My observatory build-ETX-70 imaging-my videos Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3220861 - 07/16/09 05:42 AM Attachment (25 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   here's a quick crop from M13 with mag 12 NGC 6207 field galaxy top left - 200s exp Post Extras:       Treehopper professor emeritus Reged: 07/29/08 Posts: 582 Loc: Upstate NY Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3221000 - 07/16/09 08:25 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Your results, as always, are inspiring! Thanks nyte! -------------------- Tim Champion of small aperture scopes everywhere! Meade ETX-125PE Meade ETX-80 Celestron FirstScope 76mm Mini-dob Updated: 09/16/2009 Post Extras:       Joe Lalumia Post Laureate Reged: 01/24/07 Posts: 3605 Loc: Rockwall, Texas, USA Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: Treehopper]       #3221125 - 07/16/09 09:57 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice shots, Nytecam---------thanks for posting them. Joe -------------------- LX90 8" LNT, SV Nighthawk & TelePOD, SV 80/9D & M4 mount, ETX 90, Orion XT10i, 20x80 binoculars, SV-BV3s-- www.texasastro.org "Great minds discuss ideas;Average minds discuss events;Small minds discuss people." Unknown Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: Joe Lalumia]       #3221646 - 07/16/09 02:36 PM Attachment (14 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Tim & Joe - here's M8 - don't usually aim this low in the sky from London - certainly 1st time imaged Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3221696 - 07/16/09 02:58 PM Attachment (12 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   M11 in a rich field Post Extras:       Joe Lalumia Post Laureate Reged: 01/24/07 Posts: 3605 Loc: Rockwall, Texas, USA Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3221776 - 07/16/09 03:35 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   More great shots! Nice M11 & M8 Joe -------------------- LX90 8" LNT, SV Nighthawk & TelePOD, SV 80/9D & M4 mount, ETX 90, Orion XT10i, 20x80 binoculars, SV-BV3s-- www.texasastro.org "Great minds discuss ideas;Average minds discuss events;Small minds discuss people." Unknown Post Extras:       Treehopper professor emeritus Reged: 07/29/08 Posts: 582 Loc: Upstate NY Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: Joe Lalumia]       #3222092 - 07/16/09 06:35 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I am absolutely gobsmacked every time I see these gorgeous images and think these were all done on a 70mm scope! You have a true gift, nyte! I have to get off my duff and start playing with my 80 and 125 and see what I can come up with. -------------------- Tim Champion of small aperture scopes everywhere! Meade ETX-125PE Meade ETX-80 Celestron FirstScope 76mm Mini-dob Updated: 09/16/2009 Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: Treehopper]       #3223772 - 07/17/09 05:02 PM Attachment (11 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Tim & Joe - here's M92 Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223781 - 07/17/09 05:05 PM Attachment (15 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   M13 - full frame Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223795 - 07/17/09 05:15 PM Attachment (9 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   GC M71 in Sagitta and OC Harvard 20 marked Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223813 - 07/17/09 05:27 PM Attachment (10 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   extremely remote globular NGC 5634 in Virgo at mag 9.5 hints at stellar resolution or 'clumping' Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223833 - 07/17/09 05:38 PM Attachment (14 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Globular NGC 6229 in Hercules at mag 9.5 hints at edge resolution of brightest mag 15.5 stars - amazing for 70mm aperture Post Extras:       Treehopper professor emeritus Reged: 07/29/08 Posts: 582 Loc: Upstate NY Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223839 - 07/17/09 05:40 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I think you managed to snag NGC 6207 in that image of M13! No mean feat, considering it's a magnitude 11.6! With a 70mm scope...that's just amazing! Keep 'em coming! -------------------- Tim Champion of small aperture scopes everywhere! Meade ETX-125PE Meade ETX-80 Celestron FirstScope 76mm Mini-dob Updated: 09/16/2009 Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223861 - 07/17/09 05:51 PM Attachment (11 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Globular NGC 6539 in Serpens [near Pal 7] at mag 8.9; brightest stars 15.9 Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223878 - 07/17/09 06:01 PM Attachment (9 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   globular NGC6712 in Scutum [near OC M11] at mag 8.1; brightest stars at mag 13.3 easily resolved Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223900 - 07/17/09 06:15 PM Attachment (11 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Large NGC6604 bright nebula and star cluster in Serpens Post Extras:       kc6zut professor emeritus Reged: 04/26/04 Posts: 657 Loc: Manhattan Beach CA Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223959 - 07/17/09 07:20 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Wow! -------------------- minutas cantorum, minutas balorum, minutas carboratum desendus pantorum 73 de kc6zut, Max Post Extras:       kc6zut professor emeritus Reged: 04/26/04 Posts: 657 Loc: Manhattan Beach CA Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3223960 - 07/17/09 07:20 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Wow! -------------------- minutas cantorum, minutas balorum, minutas carboratum desendus pantorum 73 de kc6zut, Max Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: kc6zut]       #3226132 - 07/19/09 02:39 AM Attachment (8 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Max - last night July 18 a brief one hour session curtailed by advancing cloud on some DSOs in Vulpecular above Altair - these objects targetted last week by the massive autonomous 2m Faulkes Telescope on Hawaii during a lunchtime school's session from SW London in brief exposures so little hope against my minute ETX-70 at 1/800th the light collecting power from suburbia but who knows here's ordinately faint planetary NGC 6842 [mag 13.6p; 48"diam; mag16 central star] with field OC NGC 6834 -------------------- Nytecam 51N 0.1W Meade 30cm LX200+ETX-70+e-finder+C8+Ha+CaK PSTs SBIG SGS+homebuilt spectrographs Starlight SXVF_M9+Lodestar CCDs/Canon 300D DSLR/Fuji E550 My observatory build-ETX-70 imaging-my videos Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3226234 - 07/19/09 05:47 AM Attachment (6 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   here's OC NGC 6940 in Vul -------------------- Nytecam 51N 0.1W Meade 30cm LX200+ETX-70+e-finder+C8+Ha+CaK PSTs SBIG SGS+homebuilt spectrographs Starlight SXVF_M9+Lodestar CCDs/Canon 300D DSLR/Fuji E550 My observatory build-ETX-70 imaging-my videos Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3226235 - 07/19/09 05:49 AM Attachment (5 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   here's emission neb NGC 6820 + central OC NGC 6823 - note the dark neb? lower right -------------------- Nytecam 51N 0.1W Meade 30cm LX200+ETX-70+e-finder+C8+Ha+CaK PSTs SBIG SGS+homebuilt spectrographs Starlight SXVF_M9+Lodestar CCDs/Canon 300D DSLR/Fuji E550 My observatory build-ETX-70 imaging-my videos Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3226248 - 07/19/09 06:09 AM Attachment (5 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   globular NGC 6934 in Delphinus in 100s [cloud approaching!] brightest stars mag 14.0 and partially resolved -------------------- Nytecam 51N 0.1W Meade 30cm LX200+ETX-70+e-finder+C8+Ha+CaK PSTs SBIG SGS+homebuilt spectrographs Starlight SXVF_M9+Lodestar CCDs/Canon 300D DSLR/Fuji E550 My observatory build-ETX-70 imaging-my videos Post Extras:       nytecam Postmaster Reged: 08/20/05 Posts: 5748 Loc: London UK Re: summer starclusters - fabulous evening ! [Re: nytecam]       #3230828 - 07/21/09 05:03 PM Attachment (7 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   M27 - almost forgot this one -------------------- Nytecam 51N 0.1W Meade 30cm LX200+ETX-70+e-finder+C8+Ha+CaK PSTs SBIG SGS+homebuilt spectrographs Starlight SXVF_M9+Lodestar CCDs/Canon 300D DSLR/Fuji E550 My observatory build-ETX-70 imaging-my videos Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 1 registered and 3 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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