Tyler, Man, that is something. When you get that baby painted and flocked I can’t wait to see what’s in store. That supernova shot is great. Good choice of target. I’d love to have an observatory such as yours. For now, I have to settle for going out in the wilderness or imaging from my driveway. I have no place to put an observatory on my property. An observatory is not in the near future I’m afraid. In fact, tonight, I hope to go out to some hills and see if I can catch that comet in the CCD. If the dedicated CCD is too much, I’ll switch to the CoolPix 4500. Where I’m going isn’t what one would call the wilderness. The hills are behind a major development in St. George. It affords a good view of the western horizon with the minimum of street light glare. However, that doesn’t matter much with the near-full-Moon action going on. Wish me luck. I’m kind of new to all this equipment. Can’t wait to see what’s in store from your neck of the woods, Dave On Mar 24, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Tyler Allred <tyler@allred-astro.com> wrote:
Hi all.
My off-axis guider finally arrived from Austria on Thursday night and I was able got the new astrograph up and running perfectly. Miraculously, the skies were clear that night, so I decided to image M65 and M66 in Leo, to test the new system out. By a lucky chance, I picked a target with a supernova that was discovered the same day: SN2013am in M65. The supernova is in the galaxy on the left in the image.
The new image with the supernova can be seen here: http://www.allred-astro.com//viewer.php?id=113 <http://www.allred-astro.com/viewer.php?id=113&cat=1&sub=96> &cat=1&sub=96
If you are interested, photos of the new astrograph can be seen here: http://www.allred-astro.com//nocturne.php?cat=3 <http://www.allred-astro.com/nocturne.php?cat=3>
I hope you will take time to look over the image and let me know your thoughts/suggestions. I am pretty happy with the performance of the scope, but I still have some work to do with cooling fans etc.
Thanks,
Tyler
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