Petri Kehusmaa Astroblog

Here is an other example of a beautiful galaxy with great halo and lot of smaller galaxies in background.

Equipment: 16″ RCOS NG Telescope + Apogee U9000 + Astrodon LRGB filter set
Image acquisition: J-P Metsävainio
Image processing: Petri Kehusmaa

This is v0.1 of this beautiful nebula. Mora data needs to be acquired.

Acquired with NG Telescope (operated by Bert Candusio)
Images: J-P Metsävainio / Petri Kehusmaa
Processing: Petri Kehusmaa

Today I was able to continue using this magical telescope in Australia. Scope was operated by Bert Candusio locally and I used the control computer with VNC.

Image data by J-P Metsävainio and Petri Kehusmaa.

Image processing by Petri Kehusmaa

Yesterday I subscribed as a user for Northern Galactic Group’s remote control telescope. Today I was able to use 16″ RCOS Truss f/9 telescope on Paramount ME mount equipped with Apogee U9000 CCD for more than 4 hours . The scope and the camera is a VERY POWERFULL combination of imaging equipment, not to forget the mount.

This is only 80 minutes of total exposure of M83. Very basic image processing.