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July 2019 TSS Monthly Challenge!

All the submissions for this months target were duly noted and I filled out each entry onto a slip of paper and did a draw, the draw was done by my CFO and Auditor(AKA, The Wife).
Below are some fun pics during the process. :D

First the names onto paper squares,
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Then folded up before going in the bag for the draw,
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Then the pick,
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And we have a winner!
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The winning entry is Messier 17!
Thank you to Michael(Helicon) for the suggestion! :thumb:

viewtopic.php?f=84&t=784

Remember to put your suggestions into the hat for the August draw here: viewtopic.php?f=84&t=1456#p12991


NGC 6618, Messier 17 and also known as the Omega Nebula or as the Swan or Lobster Nebula in the Southern Hemisphere.

Messier 17 is one of the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky.
It was first discovered by Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, later Messier made his own independent discovery and entered it as M17 in his now famous catalog.
The Nebula can be found in the constellation Sagittarius. It is thought to be between five and six thousand lights years away from Earth. It lies in a very rich star field and there are many other great targets nearby, like M16.
Below is a basic star chart taken from Cartes Du Ceil.
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So, as last time, get out there and throw all your toys at this one!
Report back with your visual reports, images, sketches or anything you have, please feel free to post your contributions here: viewforum.php?f=83

Have fun and enjoy your time out under the stars!
Eyeballs, binoculars, sketch box, Scopes n stuff.
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I'm up for a go at that one. M17 comes round past the roof of my neighbour's house in the middle of the month. I thought it was going to be too low in the sky in Sagittarius but it's up the top of the constellation near Scutum and will be at just over 22 degrees elevation by then.

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Here you are... Panel 3 of the mosaic I posted up, and the image I sent up a week or so ago by itself, in Ha...
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Yay! One of my favorite objects!

Nice presentation, Clinton ol' buddy! :)
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And if you need a little help running it down.

https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-g ... ega-nebula
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This is a wonderful target.
I will get right on this !
Thank you Michael for the suggestion.
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If the skies here will ever clear this will be a great test target for my new Obie /UBM combo.
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Omega Nebula

July 2, 2019
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I had a nice 2 hour outing with my friend Henry last night.
From 12:00 to 2:00 we posted at the dark site north of Penfield Illinois. It is a pretty good site.
Humidity was at 80% with mosquitoes at 20%, but we did not mind the mosquitoes because they kept the air moving enough to keep our equipment from fogging up. :-)

I mounted my SW100 Evostar f9 frac on my cg4 mount and drove through the milky way on what I would say was like riding in a touring limousine. The river of light began in Sagittarius and crossed overhead into Cassiopeia trailing off into the northern rim of the tree line behind our encampment.

The Omega nebula was visible naked eye for me. Through the SW scope and my Doctor 12.5 it revealed as a nice dense east west elongation of rich pail white gauziness with a slight bulge to the north. The orientaion here is not exactly East West, but slightly tilted.

I also took in many of my favorites but that is not what this post is about.

While I was star/nebula hoping Henry was imaging.
I got home at about 3 am.
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Post Script to my earlier report of Omega.
Having viewed Jim's image in the post above prior to going out, I was disappointed in my view. Actually I knew I would not see all of that. I saw exactly what I thought I would see but still. It was interesting for me mentally to understand the expanse that is represented in Jim's image that I cannot see with my eyes.
Visually I only get the smallest brightest center. :-)
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My Swan, Omega, M17, what ever. First image in more than a month, just lousy weather or too bright a moon. Nighttime conditions not all that good, bright quarter moon, wind at 15 gusts to 20mph, seeing only average, transparency average, temp in the low 70's and this thing just skims my south observatory wall.

Used a set of short exposures with my Atik460ex mono on the Meade 16 LX200 and Starizona reducer. Took, 3/3min Ha and OIII, then 5/1min Ha and OIII, finally 2/1min RGB, about a half an hour total. All images 2x2 binned for 0.7"/pixel at 2500mm efl. Processed all 22 images into a master lum, then standard RGB, for star color, and Ha and OIII as color overlays with Hydrogen Balmer series color as 1, .2, .4 ratio for RGB and OIII as 50/50 G,B. Capture and stacking and Digital development in Nebulosity all post in PS CS5 with Carboni tools.
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Of course, this thing does not all fit into the bigdog 16 FOV, but the main character is here.
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Here is my nasty image. I made this the night of 3 July. I am not especially fond of it. I've processed the data about 18 times.

This is a stack of about 32x240s lights, along with darks, flats, dark flats, and bias.

SV102T, AVX, ASI294MC Pro, guided. Captured with NINA, stacked with DSS, and processed with StarTools.
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