Disaster Recovery - Rosette in H-alpha

Hi All,

Leave it to me to fall asleep early and wake up at two in the morning to find that I only got 1 image of IC443 out of 16 from the last four hours! I wrote this little script to park the scope if I fell asleep and I put it in the wrong sequence so it parked the scope after the first image!

Undeterred, I pointed the scope at the Rosette for another 2.5 hours to try and salvage the night The result is below. I processed this image for feature contrast, rather than for depth. If your bandwith permits, please have a look at a full size center crop (447KB) for a higher resolution image - details on the shot are also there:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/neb/ngc2237-FSQ_crop.htm

TAK FSQ - AP900 - STL11000M - Astronomik H-alpha filter - 10x900 second exposures.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Attached Image:

SWEET RECOVERY JOSE!

If this is a disaster, I'd like to see your victories! No, wait, I have! Neat image, Jose!

Eric

I routinely set up the imaging sequence then go to sleep. I also have had times when alot of the images are lost (lost guide star due to clouds). Isn't it a BUMMER!!

Your image looks great (as usual)!

Tom

Thanks guys! Nothing like good old fumming to keep you wide awake at 2:30 in the morning . Glad you liked the image.

Best,

Jose

Great image Jose... despite the early troubles! I'd say you salvaged the evening in style!

Jose,
It is a great image - nicely done.

I have to say that I am a slave to my telescope - I remain in attendance while it is gathering data. Another reason why I go shorter than I should.