WO71mm and Atik 428ex 2nd Light M57 and NGC 7000 in H-alpha

Good evening,

Went on a camping trip this weekend and decided to take the new WO71mm and Atik 428ex.

The weather was very nice and was able to get a little more experience with the new kit.

The campsite had a large field and I was able to get a few test shots at a reasonably dark sky.

I wanted something sort of easy for a test shot and decided on M57. This image was a 1 x 10 min H alpha sub of the Ring Nebula. Not much here due to the FOV but was able to successfully focus and autoguide up to 10 min. My first H-alpha image and it was really exciting.


M57 1 x 10 min WO71 Atik 428 ex

Got a little more ambitious for the 2nd shot and decided on NGC7000. I tried this with the OLY last year with little to no success. Last night I shot a 5 min L test with the Atik 428 and got...well nothing. Then decided to go with the H-alpha filter for a 5 min test sub and got it. Eventually went to 8 min subs for this one and took a series for the image below. Integrated 14 x 8 min subs for just under 2 hrs.

I tend to be negative on many of my images but I am really pleased with this one. The sony sensor in the Atik camera is very sensitive and am amazed with the detail after just 2 hrs with a Astrodon 5nm H-alpha 1.25" filter. The image has very little processing and no darks, flats or DBE! Just can't image that with the OLY EPL5. Again, really amazed with this new kit!


NGC7000 14x8min WO71mm Atik 428ex autoguided 5nm H-alpha

The image needs some hot pixel removal but I will work on that when some OIII is added next chance I get. Also need to add a Bahtinov mask for focusing to make the image a little sharper. All in all, I am very pleased and should have done this a long time ago instead of struggle with the C8 and OLY.

As always any advice or suggestions are always welcome.

Cheers

mac

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Congrats on the 10 min mark !!

I'm not surprised at the NA nebula shot, but I don't think there's much if any Ha in M57. That's where you'll need an Oiii filter.

swimswithtrout said:

Congrats on the 10 min mark !!

I'm not surprised at the NA nebula shot, but I don't think there's much if any Ha in M57. That's where you'll need an Oiii filter.

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SWT thanks. Yeah I plan to get the OIII image this week. Should be interesting

mac

Looking very good Mac, nice star shapes across the field. Owning such a scope+camera+NB filters opens up a whole new world of imaging capability to you - all you need are clear nights (something we've been a bit short on recently! )

ChrisH

Hi Mac!

Looks very good - looking forward adding some color to them.

kind regards,

ChrisLX200 said:

Looking very good Mac, nice star shapes across the field. Owning such a scope+camera+NB filters opens up a whole new world of imaging capability to you - all you need are clear nights (something we've been a bit short on recently! )

ChrisH

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Hey Chris, thanks so much. You are the ccd master on the forum and no doubt I will have some questions. We actually have some clear nights lately to go with 100F days. Even the nights now are 75-80F. The ccd just keeps going at 0 C. Really nice technology. I ordered a BH mask to hep with focusing but am slowly getting better at it using the Atik software.

Cheers and I hope you get some clear skies

mac