Witch Head Nebula

This is one from 2006, hard to believe its been almost 10 years since I tried this one. Thought it was worth bringing back for Halloween.

Wow! Very nice capture. And so appropriate on this Halloween evening. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful! This is new to me ... didn't know it existed! Thank you for sharing

Amazing shot!

Great work!

SiriusDoggy wrote in post #17767434
Wow! Very nice capture. And so appropriate on this Halloween evening. Thanks for sharing.

Pixels2011 wrote in post #17767497
Beautiful! This is new to me ... didn't know it existed! Thank you for sharing

andicus wrote in post #17767603
Amazing shot!

Allan.L wrote in post #17768071
Great work!

Thank everyone for the kind comments.

A-mazing !!

Jim_T wrote in post #17768754
A-mazing !!

Thanks Jim, much appreciated.

Steve,
a stunning pic of this nebula

have seen so many gauldy and overprocessed versions of this nebula over the years, that I had forgotten that this is a beautiful blue coloured reflection nebula


you have blown this one out of the water for a realistic image rendition

my hat off to you


Dave

Davenn wrote in post #17780547
Steve,
a stunning pic of this nebula

have seen so many gauldy and overprocessed versions of this nebula over the years, that I had forgotten that this is a beautiful blue coloured reflection nebula


you have blown this one out of the water for a realistic image rendition

my hat off to you


Dave

Thank you very much Dave. I captured this one with my Sky 90. The star spikes came from my experimentation with creating spikes by crossing fishing leader across the front of the scope. Once I started using a Newtonian and getting them the "real" way I stopped trying to get them on the refractor. I don't think the spikes are too overpowering on objects like The Witch Head but on star-rich objects like Pleiades they're a bit much for my taste.

Thanks for sharing

Great shot!

Nighthound wrote in post #17780934
Thank you very much Dave. I captured this one with my Sky 90. ...............

Hi Steve

A belated response to this comment from you
Sky 90 ? skywatcher 90 ?

just been mulling over the possibility of buying a refractor for photography... something I could piggyback on my CPC925
I want something with much lower f-stop than the f10 of the 925 but longer focal length and slightly better f-stop than my
Canon 100-400mm which is f5.6 @ 400mm.

Was interested in what you were referring to with the sky 90 and it's spec's ?


looking at these as possibilities ( just pondering unless some one can suggest much better) ......

http://www.bintel.com.​au …120/1796/produc​tview.aspx
( this one I am only interested in the optics quality as the mount wont be used)


http://www.bintel.com.​au …-OTA/987/productview.as​px


Ohhh I have a HEQ5 PRO goto mount that either of these scopes would be mounted to in the future


you experienced thoughts would be appreciated


Regards
Dave

Davenn wrote in post #17961329
Hi Steve

A belated response to this comment from you
Sky 90 ? skywatcher 90 ?

just been mulling over the possibility of buying a refractor for photography... something I could piggyback on my CPC925
I want something with much lower f-stop than the f10 of the 925 but longer focal length and slightly better f-stop than my
Canon 100-400mm which is f5.6 @ 400mm.

Was interested in what you were referring to with the sky 90 and it's spec's ?

looking at these as possibilities ( just pondering unless some one can suggest much better) ......

http://www.bintel.com.​au …120/1796/produc​tview.aspx
( this one I am only interested in the optics quality as the mount wont be used)

http://www.bintel.com.​au …-OTA/987/productview.as​px

Ohhh I have a HEQ5 PRO goto mount that either of these scopes would be mounted to in the future

you experienced thoughts would be appreciated

Regards
Dave

Hi Dave. I use a Takahashi Sky 90. It's 500mm out of the box @ f/5.6. With the focal reducer/flattener it's 407mm @ f/4.5. Be prepared to pay a pretty penny for adapters, the reducer/flattener is $517 US. From what I can tell the Sky 90 isn't available here in the US anymore. It looks like it is in Europe.

The TMB Optical 92mm is a good option as well if this is the size range you're looking for but I believe it's discontinued. Maybe find a used one? Also Stellarvue makes a real nice 80mm.

Stellarvue makes a great 80mm. I've seen this one up close and it's a beauty. Great focuser and it's a triplet. (480mm).
https://www.optcorp.co​m …feathertouch-focuser.html

Hope this helps.

Nighthound wrote in post #17961458
Hi Dave. I use a Takahashi Sky 90. It's 500mm out of the box @ f/5.6. With the focal reducer/flattener it's 407mm @ f/4.5. Be prepared to pay a pretty penny for adapters, the reducer/flattener is $517 US. From what I can tell the Sky 90 isn't available here in the US anymore. It looks like it is in Europe.

The TMB Optical 92mm is a good option as well if this is the size range you're looking for but I believe it's discontinued. Maybe find a used one? Also Stellarvue makes a real nice 80mm.

Stellarvue makes a great 80mm. I've seen his one up close and it's a beauty. Great focuser and it's a triplet. (480mm).
https://www.optcorp.co​m …feathertouch-focuser.html

Hope this helps.

thanks for the references, Steve, will do some following up

sorry for a slight hijack of your thread, I wouldn't have done it if it was a new thread


Dave