[Dietmar]

hi folks,

in two nights I imaged M3, which is such a beautiful cluster!
tight though and therfor tough to process, it is so cute to see the center split in the TMB scope.

one night granted very nice conditions; the second one, when I did the colors was very windy and seeing was bad.

Since I wanted to have a nice FOV I decided to image with the 5" f/9 TMB SApo, which was a good idea, as seeing was so bad the second night, I could not have guided for 2050mm FL.
I wanted to do the colors in 1x1,...but I should have decided differently...seeing,...exposure time...f/9 is quite s l o w.

please find all data and images on my website:
http://www.stargazer...ory.com/m3.html

thanks for taking a look.
your comments are appreciated.

best regards,
Dietmar

[Astronomy@qteaser.com]

Nicely done Diets.
Its nice to see that you are finally getting some good imaging nights in.
Thanks for sharing.

Regards

Mark

[Celestron8]

Diets , Great Shot ! One of my most favorite GCs' to look at . Actually , my first Bushnell reflector scope i bought back in '96 , before my Celestron C8 , this was the first actual object i ever spotted ! By luck too ! I didn't know exactly what i was doing and i didn't have any good EPs' so M3 was a small fuzz ball cause the 4.5" Bushnell didn't resolve any stars so what i thought i was seeing was a galaxie , til i decided i needed a good scope and bought the C8 and after i learned to use it i found M3 again and saw it was a GC which got me hooked til today as GC are my #1 objects over everything ! Thanks for sharing and as i said , Great Shot ! BTW i never realized how many fuzzies are around M3 !! Lots' show up in your large image !!

This post has been edited by Celestron8: 11 May 2008 - 07:02 PM

[budguinn]

Hi Diets,

Beautifully done......this is as nice as I've seen this object....really nice resolution and great color

[Dietmar]

...thanks Mark, C8 and Bud.

C8, I know what you are talking about. I once looked through a "retro-designed" 3cm lens scope. the guy who owned this wanted to experience the same view Galileo had when looking at the planets. w etoo, as Galileo only saw 3 balls of diffferent size when we observed saturn with it. the larger one was th eplanet, the smaller ones were the edges of the rings... (-:
there is nothing so sexy than an unobstructed apochromatic telescope,..or a decent mirror... (-: