Needle NGC4565 with the 16" Dob

[rocky fjord]

~30 mins exposure using 1-4 second subs. Bortle 6. SW400P, Uranus-C at 1800mm f/4.4.

[hollow edge]

Wow, this is fantastic looking!! Really neat image, it almost looks like it was taken with an observatory.

How zoomed in is this, out of curiosity? Like how wide is the original uncropped image?

[rocky fjord]

This is pretty much uncropped tbh

I'll grab the full FOV

one sec

[hollow edge]

Oh wow

[hollow edge]

Oh man ok, dang

that's some serious telescope power

[rocky fjord]

Had a bit of field rotation issues so I had to crop

[split oasis]

Wow! You should absolutely try M51 with that set up! Well, if you haven’t already!

[rocky fjord]

I plan to, if it clears up again.

Would have done it on Sunday, but it was exactly at zenith so the field rotation was unusable.

[split oasis]

Btw, would you bother sharing the data?

[rocky fjord]

Can DM the data if you want it.

[split oasis]

Yes, please!

[dense aurora]

I can't wait to see this with more data from this set up

[floral oak]

@rocky fjord incredible photo! I always love trying deep space with my C14 but it always seems like there is to little stars for deep sky stacker to register it says, would you happen to know a way around this? I am at about 25 sec exposures since I am unguided

[wary quiver]

change the star detector threshold

[glass geyser]

Insane.

[atomic imp]

[rocky fjord]

I had to use Astrosurface as DSS and SiriL didn't like the per-frame SNR

single sub...

[cerulean thorn]

what all challenges occur when shooting with such massive scope

?

why dont u try for sombrero ?

[rocky fjord]

Too low altitude for me. I'm at 51.5°N

[rocky fjord]

Set up can be annoying. It's pretty heavy.

but otherwise not many issues

[normal chasm]

Get an OAG lol

A big prism one at that

Do your 300+s exposures lol

[wary quiver]

i honestly didn't know u did deep space too, this is icredible though

[rocky fjord]

I rarely do to be fair.

[broken schooner]

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