Hi All! I really enjoyed ALCON, and I can't express fully my admiration for those folks who worked so hard to pull it off. BRAVO! I only managed to image on one night, due to equipment issues and sleep deprivation issues (no explanation will be offered here). However, the conditions were really great and I imaged four objects in my single imaging night. This is the first image that I am posting. It is a wide view of M8, "The Lagoon Nebula". My scope has a much shorter focal length than Joe's, so my view is less detailed and much wider. This is a very large extended object and it really has an amazing structure. Take a look if you get a minute. Please click the image a few times to see the full resolution version. Cheers, Tyler A link to the latest images page of my website is here: http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html PS - This was taken with a relatively new Finger Lakes Instrumentation ML8300 camera, which I am really enjoying.
Tyler, Amazing!!!! On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net>wrote:
Hi All!
I really enjoyed ALCON, and I can't express fully my admiration for those folks who worked so hard to pull it off. BRAVO!
I only managed to image on one night, due to equipment issues and sleep deprivation issues (no explanation will be offered here). However, the conditions were really great and I imaged four objects in my single imaging night. This is the first image that I am posting. It is a wide view of M8, "The Lagoon Nebula". My scope has a much shorter focal length than Joe's, so my view is less detailed and much wider. This is a very large extended object and it really has an amazing structure. Take a look if you get a minute. Please click the image a few times to see the full resolution version.
Cheers,
Tyler
A link to the latest images page of my website is here: http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html
PS - This was taken with a relatively new Finger Lakes Instrumentation ML8300 camera, which I am really enjoying.
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I wish I would have had the energy to do two nights imaging at Rainbow Point since usually the first night I work out the bugs. However, after staying up all night Thursday, I didn't have the strength to do a second night. I had a lot of trouble getting good tracking in the main scope and traced the problem when I tore down in the morning to the lock screws on the guide scope not being tightened sufficiently. I ended up with only two useable images with M 27 being only a single LRGB set culled from numerous images. For 891 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4430&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For M 27 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4433&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For best results it helps to be able to set up for more than one night at a time. Clear Skies, Don
Awesome images Don! They are both keepers. Tyler -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Don J. Colton Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:24 PM To: 'Utah Astronomy' Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Rainbow Point ALCON Images I wish I would have had the energy to do two nights imaging at Rainbow Point since usually the first night I work out the bugs. However, after staying up all night Thursday, I didn't have the strength to do a second night. I had a lot of trouble getting good tracking in the main scope and traced the problem when I tore down in the morning to the lock screws on the guide scope not being tightened sufficiently. I ended up with only two useable images with M 27 being only a single LRGB set culled from numerous images. For 891 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4430&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For M 27 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4433&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For best results it helps to be able to set up for more than one night at a time. Clear Skies, Don _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php
Very nice, Don! I agree with you entirely: for best results we need to set up and work the bugs out one night, then image like crazy the next. I wish it had been possible to leave our gear up. I worked the public star party and also did private imaging, and that left me exhausted. I'm just now recovering. But it sure was fun. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Don J. Colton <djcolton@piol.com> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Rainbow Point ALCON Images I wish I would have had the energy to do two nights imaging at Rainbow Point since usually the first night I work out the bugs. However, after staying up all night Thursday, I didn't have the strength to do a second night. I had a lot of trouble getting good tracking in the main scope and traced the problem when I tore down in the morning to the lock screws on the guide scope not being tightened sufficiently. I ended up with only two useable images with M 27 being only a single LRGB set culled from numerous images. For 891 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4430&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For M 27 See: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4433&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 For best results it helps to be able to set up for more than one night at a time. Clear Skies, Don _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php
Spectacularly beautiful, Tyler!! -- Thanks for posting it, Joe ________________________________ From: Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net> To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 2:42 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] ALCON Image #1 - The Lagoon Nebula Hi All! I really enjoyed ALCON, and I can't express fully my admiration for those folks who worked so hard to pull it off. BRAVO! I only managed to image on one night, due to equipment issues and sleep deprivation issues (no explanation will be offered here). However, the conditions were really great and I imaged four objects in my single imaging night. This is the first image that I am posting. It is a wide view of M8, "The Lagoon Nebula". My scope has a much shorter focal length than Joe's, so my view is less detailed and much wider. This is a very large extended object and it really has an amazing structure. Take a look if you get a minute. Please click the image a few times to see the full resolution version. Cheers, Tyler A link to the latest images page of my website is here: http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html PS - This was taken with a relatively new Finger Lakes Instrumentation ML8300 camera, which I am really enjoying. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php
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