Messier one...again

Hi all,

Well it was clear tonight but the seeing went south soon after dark and by the time I had everything set to go it was a solid 4-5/10 seeing. The only thing that salvaged the videos to some degree was the IR passband filter (I suspect the better the seeing gets the less they are needed and with really good seeing are probably a hinderence). I also dropped back to just a 3X's barlow.
The ray structure around Messier did turn out nicely.
Stack of about 250/1200
18" Starmaster

--Mike W

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Sweet picture, Mike! I took a similar image back in '00 that was used in S&T, but yours is much better. Keep 'em coming!

Maurizio

Mike,

Nice image showing the odd shape of these two craters smartly...but honestly for some reason when I read Messier one I was expecting to see the crab nebula...

Paul

Mike Wirths said:

Hi all,

Well it was clear tonight but the seeing went south soon after dark and by the time I had everything set to go it was a solid 4-5/10 seeing. The only thing that salvaged the videos to some degree was the IR passband filter (I suspect the better the seeing gets the less they are needed and with really good seeing are probably a hinderence). I also dropped back to just a 3X's barlow.
The ray structure around Messier did turn out nicely.
Stack of about 250/1200
18" Starmaster

--Mike W