Dark Tower in Scorpius

Shot this from home last night.

IMAGE LINK: http://astrob.in/full/​193846/0/

Excellent capture and edit troypiggo , Especially the expanded size ! This is what it's all about !

Great shot, what was the exposure/gear used? I'm tempted to mod one of my lower end bodies for the red ... hmm

Thanks guys.

Allan - This was imaged with a TMB92SS refractor (506mm focal length) and QSI583ws8 cooled CCD camera with luminance, red, green, blue, and hydrogen-alpha filters. I had a 40D modded before this current CCD camera, and you'll definitely get that red Ha emission nebulosity. Go for it
Exposures for this image were about 10x 6min subs for luminance and RGB, and 10x 10min subs for the Ha. All up it was maybe 5 hours of data.

troypiggo wrote in post #17629792
Shot this from home last night.

IMAGE LINK: http://astrob.in/full/​193846/0/

This image is a prime example of images I've talked about in the past that cannot be had of the same quality with even a modded camera . You can get some good ones yes with a modded camera but the red is more dominant than the equally other GB colors and luminosity stage to boost it . Dedicated CCDs' are strictly DSO imaging cameras and cannot be used for anything else such as a daytime camera . Dedicated CCD cameras produce top quality images !