Some Great Latest Photos Taken by the SV550 122MM
Some Great Latest Photos Taken by the SV550 122MM
Our SV550 special photography competition is ongoing, and you are welcome to contribute and share. Below are some of the latest photos and feelings shared by our friends. Let's read them together.
Herbert Hamber
1. Western Veil Nebula C34 in Cygnus, from yesterday evening.
The Western Veil nebula is part of the Cygnus Loop gas cloud, around 2.4k light years away. The ring-shaped glowing gases are part of a supernova remnant that exploded around 10k to 20k years ago, at the time shining brighter than Venus and even visible during the day.
The image was acquired using Hydrogen alpha, Oxygen OIII and Sulphur SII 3nm Svbony narrowband filters.
It is then rendered in the CFHT (Canada France Hawaii Telescope) or HOS false color palette, where the H alpha line is mapped to red, the OIII line is mapped to green, and the SII line is mapped to blue.
SVbony SV550 122mm triplet APO on Skywatcher HEQ5 mount, Sony IMX571 26Mp cooled camera, optical polar alignment.
Total exposure time 134 mins.
No guiding, no wifi, no gps, no apps, no gadgets, manual focus with paper printed bahtinov mask, no darks, no flats, no bias, no added stars, no removed stars, no cropping, image minimally edited in Gimp.
This is one more recent image with the SV550 122, now under a full moon.
2. Dumbbell Nebula M27 in Vulpecula, from four nights ago.
M27 is - like the Helix nebula - another planetary nebula where the outer gas regions are illuminated by a bright central star, in this case a white dwarf remnant.
SVbony SV550 122mm triplet APO on Skywatcher HEQ5 mount, Sony IMX571 26Mp cooled camera, optical polar alignment.
Optolong L-Enhance filter to reduce background glow. No garish coloring added.
Total exposure time 109 min, 15 sec subs.
No guiding, no wifi, no gps, no apps, no useless gadgets, manual focus with paper bahtinov mask, no darks, no flats, no bias, no added or removed stars, no cropping, minimal editing in Gimp.
One more recent image with the new Svbony SV550 122mm, under moderate visual conditions, in my Irvine backyard.
Tseng ST
"A Glimpse Through Thin Clouds: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura)"
Captured on the early morning of August 27, 2023, the observation conditions for C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) were not ideal due to cloud cover in the lowland area. However, by utilizing the Histogram Display, it is still evident that the length of the comet's tail extends to nearly one degree.
SVBony SV550 122 mm APO 0.8X f/5.6
ASI 2600mc pro / ASI 220mm mini / AM5
OptolongL-Pro filter 2 min x 8
Processed with SIRIL and GIMP
Leo Yu
A different take on M31.... Odd framing that turned out to be rather intriguing while I was doing some comparison testing.
Bogusław Heide
Hi,
presenting photo composed of 18 frames with a total time of 117 minutes (not enough material yet to draw anything more).
Fortunately, the photos were taken in the rather dark Bieszczady Mountains (Poland), although not in the darkest ones, but it can be seen from there with the naked eye.
Programs that helped in processing: Deep sky stacker, Pixinsight and LR.
I am satisfied with my work, I can no longer write it is amateur equipment, but also not for millions.
Benjamin Chappell
Here is my final result on NGC 6960. I am quite impressed myself. The 122mm Apo is a true crowd pleaser.
