August, 22 - A very pleasent evening, with a lot of AAs; a perfect time to gather again with the guys and to get to finally meet some others only known trough forums and stuff alike.
Very good location and weather conditions, despite the blazing temperature felt in the afternoon.
The sky was very good but not as good as I'd like it to be, since I drove downunder with the specific goal of testing my beloved C11 away from my heavy polluted sky and poor weather. Jupiter didn't feel like it and I could not snap it higher than f/10. This was a setback I had to put up with...
I did manage to shoot 3 avis (one for each RGB channel) at f/10 mainly due to the fact that a very nice young couple cared to ask a few questions about imaging capturing and processing. We had a nice chat over it, along with the process which was really nice.
This is the image that "we" came up with:
Very good location and weather conditions, despite the blazing temperature felt in the afternoon.
The sky was very good but not as good as I'd like it to be, since I drove downunder with the specific goal of testing my beloved C11 away from my heavy polluted sky and poor weather. Jupiter didn't feel like it and I could not snap it higher than f/10. This was a setback I had to put up with...
I did manage to shoot 3 avis (one for each RGB channel) at f/10 mainly due to the fact that a very nice young couple cared to ask a few questions about imaging capturing and processing. We had a nice chat over it, along with the process which was really nice.
This is the image that "we" came up with:
Anyway, the icing on the cake was the beautiful sight through my FRed (0.63x) C11: the Veil Nebula (NGC6960). This was a super catch that was shared by some of the fellows that were close to me at the moment.
We tried a view with and without Astronomik's UHC filter, but it was much better unfiltered. Gosh! What a great sight!
It turn up to be really worth it all the buzz&fuzz of getting there and not being able to get those much wanted Jups.
A memorable image in my mind.
The picture below shows the supernova remnants and the Veil Nebula part that we had a glimpse on. Move your mouse over to check the area we had a look at.
We tried a view with and without Astronomik's UHC filter, but it was much better unfiltered. Gosh! What a great sight!
It turn up to be really worth it all the buzz&fuzz of getting there and not being able to get those much wanted Jups.
A memorable image in my mind.
The picture below shows the supernova remnants and the Veil Nebula part that we had a glimpse on. Move your mouse over to check the area we had a look at.
Credit: Dean Jacobsen
Direct link to original picture:http://www.astrophoto.net/veil.html
picture resized and modified for animation purposes only.
All in all, it all came down to this:
PROS:
- great atmosphere among the AAs, as usual;
- meeting "old" and new friends;
- nice dark sky with lots of stars to make you feel lost :D
- great patch of Milk Way;
- M31 clearly visible in naked eye;
- NGC6960 view.
CONS:
- unable to shoot Jup at high power;
- lack of power (car battery for power inverter failed to give my laptop enough power...) even car engine running... for the first time :(
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