Clouds day (night)off

[kochu]

Last night , all off a sudden clouds seemed decided to take a night off. In fact, just in the evening we had decided to cancel a trip to Sedili as sky looked awful. Just lost a week end chance.

Anyway I decided to make use of the night, just just for trying out a 6.3 SCT reducer on 120 ED. I had to make a short adaptor to get the QSI to focus on the setup. The results appear promising.
The night developed to be quite productive. I could get pilot shots of three objects ( lot more data required ), up to about 4.30 in the morning, till clouds started rolling in.

All images on Ha. EQ6/EQdir/SW ED120 with F 6.3 SCT FR/QSI 583ws/Astodon 5nm Ha filter.. Taken from Jurong West Singapore on 29 th Oct 2011

Kochu/30-10-11
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1. Bubble complex NGC 7635 in Cassiopeia.



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Horse Head Nebula



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Little more of pelican using F 6.3 reducer

[Gary]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Last night was very clear in northern Johor.

[shirox]

wow love your horse head!

[Clifford60]

Hi Kochu, Thanks for sharing the great pictures, haha, the bubble looks the taichi sign.

[jiahao1986]

Great shots Kochu! The weather this weekend was a real surprise. Pity that non of us headed to Sedili...

[cataclysm]

Very impressive images!! All taken from your observatory?

[kochu]

Yes Kevin, No need to drift align, can skip many routines. Only problem is, cannot go and sleep after programming exposures... ...One never knows when the clouds will roll in and start to rain.

Kochu

[Gary]

Maybe you need something like this?

[rcj]

love the see all the northern stuff for a change, Kochu! Wow...B33 looks really bright for integration in Singapore! well done!

[kochu]

Thanks Remus,

I can only see north and Zenith from my place. . So no way other than to go to Malaysia to view Eta Carena and rest of southern beauties..

I have taken some LRGB exposures also of B33, on the same night, but still to learn how to merge Ha with LRGB.

Hi Gary, I have a roll on roll off set up.. but cannot operate when scope is up, as awning level is just above parking position od mount....an oversight in design.

Brgds

Kochu/3-11-11