I’ve said before that I believe we are in the Golden Age of
amateur astro imaging. I see wonderful images every day taken from backyard
telescope that would have been impossible with large, observatory class
telescopes not that long ago. For a relatively modest investment, we can buy superb
optics, wonderful imagers, and mounts that guide with sub-arcsecond resolution.
Amazing when you think about it!
Last night, I took an image of the Pacman Nebula with the
RASA 8 and DS10C with just over 2 hours of integration time (30 second subs).
The cropped “heart of Pacman” shows why its great to be an imager today. The
DS10C supported a huge crop, and still preserved lots of detail. The excellence
of the optics of the RASA 8—a mass produced scope, are also evident (to say
nothing of the free software bundles that make all this possible, too).
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The original image captured and stacked:
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