Widefield IC405, IC410, IC417, M38 region in Halpha

by Richard Crisp


here's another widefield from the ST10XME attached to the Pentax Takkumar 150mm f/2.8 medium format lens used with a 50mm unmounted AstroDon Halpha filter.

I managed to take an hour's worth of data (4x15minutes) last night in the backyard before the high thin clouds started to move in.

This is an interesting area. The seeing was pretty soft, but the 150mm lens fortunately isn't so sensitive to seeing conditions with an image scale of about 9.4 arc-sec/pixel. It would have been a lousy night for using the 18" cassegrain for sure: Procyon was flashing like a searchlight :-)

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/ic410_widefield_ha_pentax_st10_page.htm


Posted on calastro Jan 18, 2005 08:32:36 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.2 Jan 27, 2005 23:25:47 PT