The Owl Planetary Nebula

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The Owl Planetary Nebula - M97
Taken by Charles Chiofar on March 26, 2019 @ Buckley,Washington

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A short stack of CCD images of the Owl Nebula taken on March 26 with LRGB and H-alpha combined with Luminance. The Owl is fairly small and pretty dim so a total exposure of about 2 hours is much too short for good detail. An Orion star shoot auto guider was used along with an Astro-Physics MACH1 mount. Additional details are noted on slide 1. With high passing clouds it was difficult to image longer than 8 minutes at any one time. The transparency was also fairly poor.

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$400 OTA on a $6,000 mount?
Wouldnt a 10 or 12-inch newtonian astrograph be in keeping with such a mount? :)
David,Dublin

Posted by davefriend0 2019-03-30 04:14:22

Yes, a 10 or 12-inch astrograph would be better (if I had one).
The transparency in the northwest is usually pretty bad and
were in pollen season now so I change my optics to lower end
scopes for a few months. The Meade AR6 optically is a good scope. You dont need an expensive(or really big)scope to get some nice deep space images. Most of my best images were taken with low price point scopes. You do, however, need
to have good tracking for long exposures (especially when using narrow band filters) so the MACH1 works great. As far as low end
scopes I think the Meade AR6 is a very good.

Posted by scubadiver 2019-03-31 18:30:23

These pictures are very good. I used to have a Meade AR5 but was not impressed with its optical performance. Looks like the AR6 would have been a better choice. I use a Vixen 103S now.
Time for some scope envy. I know a guy that sold his AP Mach1
But he has an AP130 and an AP1100 Mount. He also has an AP175 and an AP1600 mount. You get precision tracking with an AP and can use a variety of OTAs.

Posted by orbital1 2019-04-01 06:47:26

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