Well hello again , I have a few photos that a fellow Edmonton RASCal took.
He has the experience and equipment and the quality of the photos show it.
His name is Wayne Malkin and has a few photos on line .
It's been a busy month or so, collecting lots of data during that last nice run of clear weather, and digging into Photoshop some more when conditions weren't so great. Here are a few shots, both recent acquisitions and a bit of reprocessing of previous data. M31: http://www.pbase.com/wmalkin/image/89877674/original I think this will always be my favourite subject. This latest shot was the start of a planning lengthy LRGB sequence, but I only ever got the first 90 minutes or so of data. Nevertheless, the conditions were so good that night that I think it is my best attempt so far. M44: http://www.pbase.com/wmalkin/image/90511591 This is a simple RGB shot with 20 minutes in each colour, shot between midnight and 2AM yesterday. IC405-410: http://www.pbase.com/wmalkin/image/90283283/ A very wide field shot that includes the Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) at bottom-right, and IC410 at top-centre. The Flaming Star shows a very interesting blue reflection nebula in long RGB shots. I didn't pick that up really in this shot, where almost all of the data is narrow band Ha. Heart & Soul (HaR)GB: http://www.pbase.com/wmalkin/image/88866030 I shared the Ha version of this a while ago. Shortly afterwards I collected 90 minutes of RGB data for each panel (this is a two panel mosaic). Then I spent the last two or three months trying to figure out how to combine the RGB and Ha. I'm really happy with this one. IC1396: http://www.pbase.com/wmalkin/image/90427376 The Elephant Trunk Nebula. The framing is a little off and the elephant trunk is near the bottom of the frame. This is a bicolour narrow band image, just Ha and OIII data combined to generate colours pleasing to my eye, if not exactly scientific. Thanks for looking!
thanks Wayne.
merry christmas and enjoy ...Dave