NGC 891

Hello friends,

it seems it has been quite a while since I posted an image to the group.
This is mainly due to a very annoying mixture of bad weather and little time for the beloved hobby.
…cloudy nights and overcast days give the chance to use ones time for different things:
Educational talks on astro-related events, astro-education in public schools and more importantly, getting some interesting projects on wheels like raising people’s sensitivity to the IYA09, light-pollution and dark-sky per se.
Politians are hard to convince about things that really make sense for all of us (and not so much for the political party…),…the only argument they tend to accept is: money,…and introducing low-power-consuming laps and street-lights seems to be the very key… but this is really OT here…sorry.
Next summer we (the ars electronica center in linz and me) intend to let the „city-fathers“ turn out all „un-essential“ lights at night (well, that must be something like 99%...) around the main-place in town (250.000 inhab) and conduct a public huge star-party for each and everyone. Should be cool!

A couple days ago I was lucky to find time AND clear skies…it took me a while to figure how to run all the cables between the scope, filterwheel, electric focuser, and stuff…*g*
Honestly – after more than 8 weeks of „abstinence“ in astrofotografic terms I was just about to loose my routine here…
Well, here we are with a version of ngc 891, imaged with my „big boy“ the 9“ tmb apo und decent conditions.
A couple remarkable images have been posted here lately of that object, and I hope mine still qualifies for giving you a good time looking at it…
All data is on the website.
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891.html

here is the link to the full-size frame:
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891-full.html

thanks a lot for taking a look – and I apologize for the looong post.
Best to you all and tell all the people being your reach about IYA and what it’s all about.
Dietmar

Holy Crap! That is a great image Diets.

Hey stranger,

Good to see you! This is a stunning image and which I hope to pursue very shortly as well. Galaxies often require lots of hours of total exposure time but you nailed this one beautifully with relatively little total time.

Anthony.

Breathtaking shot Dietmar! as sweet as it gets! 8)
Thank you!

Dietmar,
Its nice to hear what you are up to - I don't mind the information in the post at all. Its just unfortunate that your busy schedule and clouds kept you away from your imaging which you do so well. The NGC 891 image is great - lots of super detail.

Hi Dietmar,
Awesome image! The resolution into the core and little dust areas is remarkable.
Hope you you get more time and clear skies to image!


Jason