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Pages: 1 Oldfield Postmaster Reged: 03/20/02 Loc: Hong Kong December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260)       #5556536 - 12/05/12 10:08 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Overview: Welcome to the Cloudy Nights Monthly Challenge Imaging Competition in CCD Imaging & Processing Forum: This competition is intended to be a fun way for you to improve your imaging abilities and a way for you to see many new images with a variety of equipment. All imagers are welcome and encouraged to enter. Each month a single object will be selected for the competition by the winner from 2 months previous. Having a one month delay allows voting and selection of the next object and will give a full month's time for entries. The winner of each competition gets to choose the next object and their image will be included in the Hall of Fame message thread. There are no other prizes. Please include your imaging details such as location, date, telescope, guiding, exposure time, etc with your submission. Rules: 1. Have fun! Support other contestants and be polite with your comments. 2. All entries must be captured within the same imaging season. For example, if the December target is the Orion Nebula, you must use images taken during the current winter, not any other year. 3. Image size is limited to 800x800 pixels and 200k in size. 4. Any equipment is allowed to be used in the images including rental equipment; with the only exception of DSLR, since we have another forum specifically for DSLR. 5. All image taking and processing must be done by your team, including equipment setup. 6. Each person may submit only 1 entry per month. However, you may edit your submission and replace the image with a newer one if you wish using the Edit function. 7. Winners will be selected by forum members, the one which receives the highest number of vote will be the winner. Please submit your image in this thread, comment can be made in the same thread as well. Post Extras:       Mike Wiles scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 02/04/09 Loc: Goodyear, AZ Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: Oldfield]       #5585324 - 12/23/12 10:17 AM Attachment (47 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Sh2-260 Dates: December 6th through December 9th, 2012 Location: Goodyear, Arizona Telescope: Explore Scientific ED127CF Refractor - 127mm f/7.5 Carbon Fiber Triplet Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO CP3 Camera: SBIG ST-8300m and SBIG FW8-8300 filter wheel Guiding: SBIG ST-i Mono and SBIG OAG-8300 off-axis guider Exposure: 19.5 hours - Ha - 28x1800s 1x1, RGB - 11x600s 1x1 each Capture: CCD AutoPilot v5, Maxim DL 5.18 Calibration & Processing: PixInsight 1.7 A larger version can be found on my Astrobin page Post Extras:       Oldfield Postmaster Reged: 03/20/02 Loc: Hong Kong Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: Mike Wiles]       #5600897 - 01/02/13 09:38 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Any more? I guess we shall wait for a few more days? Post Extras:       elbee professor emeritus Reged: 05/02/09 Loc: Arizona Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: Oldfield]       #5601628 - 01/02/13 05:25 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   it was on my todo list. i REALLY wanted to go after this object in december but only had 2 imaging nights and i had to finish up another object. :-( looks like you did a great job, mike. Post Extras:       Dan Crowson sage Reged: 10/08/10 Loc: O'Fallon, MO Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: Oldfield]       #5601890 - 01/02/13 08:25 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I imaged this one a month or so back but mine doesn't even come close to Mike's. His is fantastic! Dan Post Extras:       Mike Wiles scholastic sledgehammer Reged: 02/04/09 Loc: Goodyear, AZ Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: Dan Crowson]       #5602855 - 01/03/13 12:02 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I had originally selected this as a target simply because I wanted to stray into some new territory. With Sh2-260, the only amateur image I could find was Dean Salman's at his fantastic www.sharplesscatalog.com site. After shooting it myself - I now understand why it's not often targeted. It's really, really, really faint. In terms of processing, this was the most difficult image I've taken to date. Having now done so with an f/7.5 refractor I'd love to go back and shoot it with one of these large aperture, ridiculously fast Newtonians that are making the rounds. 18 or 20 hours at f/3.6-ish would turn out an awesome image....I think....maybe. Post Extras:       stephane zoll super member Reged: 09/11/11 Loc: Grenoble, France Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: Mike Wiles]       #5603365 - 01/03/13 04:57 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I also wanted to image it but no chance so far. I may have a slot over the next days, if you accept to wait some more ! Post Extras:       stephane zoll super member Reged: 09/11/11 Loc: Grenoble, France Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: stephane zoll]       #5606846 - 01/05/13 03:40 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   So just to participate, here is my small contribution : Indeed, really faint ! I had to play with the clouds, to get finally 13x15min acquisition time, in 2 nights ; Halpha only. Setup: - FSQ106ED - Astrodon Ha 5nm - Atik 4000M Thanks, Post Extras:       elbee professor emeritus Reged: 05/02/09 Loc: Arizona Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: stephane zoll]       #5608191 - 01/06/13 11:59 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   appreciate the delay in voting. i'll add my contribution. i was able to get few hours each of the last 3 nights (Jan. 3-5). great object, mike, but man is this a faint one. H-alpha only (hopefully, i can work on adding color later in the week after a storm passes through) scope: TEC160FL @ f/7 camera: SBIG STL-11000M filter: 5nm Astrodon H-alpha Exposure: 23x30min (1x1) location: the side of my house (northern AZ) where i can avoid the tree that blocks anything below 10deg declination. Higher Res. Sharpless2-260 Edited by elbee (01/06/13 12:16 PM) Post Extras:       stephane zoll super member Reged: 09/11/11 Loc: Grenoble, France Re: December 2012 Challenge Entries (Sh2-260) [Re: elbee]       #5609673 - 01/07/13 06:32 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Really nice SNR ! Arizona sky... Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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