I, too, have been jolted out of my RU-vid lurking lair. Your vids are so entertaining. I literally burst out laughing at the Bray Falls OIII joke. Way to keep it fresh and edgy. You are the OG of RU-vid Astro!
Great video as usual & thanks for the honorable mention. I love this Dragon's Egg and am quite sure sure I have never seen it before. The image is outstanding especially the blue OIII outer shell which is really wild. I enjoyed your commentary regarding the bipolar structure of these PN, the visualization helped. Cheers Kurt
An excellent presentation on a target I have had a couple of shots at. I was mostly defeated by the bortle 6 in the Perth metro area. As for cable management, I found the simple solution were the little CordTech 120mm velcro straps priced $4.97 for a 20-pack at "The Big Green Shed". Easy to apply and easy to remove.
That is one of the most amazing and puzzling image you have ever created. I see you even referenced one of Dennis Webb's collaborative books for insight. He a great guy, and a member of our local astronomy group. Thoroughly enjoyed this effort!
I myself, as a musician first, before an astrophotographer, love your guitar playing! and the style. I play 5 different instruments, and Own 7 guitars including a copy of The hofner beatle bass, and a Brian may copy. Piano, drums, 5 accordions ect, its my more rainy cloudy night hobby and passion. Or the previous rabbit hole, it's why I store lots and lots of carrots in the fridge. Love all your videos and learned much from you! Thank you 😊
Excellent and very well put together and educational video!! So many Astro amateurs just like to take images (some of them are outstanding) and post them but fail to explain the physics and details that make each object unique and fascinating. Keep up the great work Dylan!
Great video! Glad you've returned to making videos, they are always so entertaining and hilarious. But be careful, you need to do a minimum of a 4 week countdown before dropping an OIII bombshell on us like that. 🤯
The best part about that image is that beyond being amazing to look at, it has a great story too! Justice for the dragons egg! We need more science on that stat!
Hey Dylan! That is a beautiful integration, well done! Once again you guys down under have the coolest objects to image! Now that you have that shiny new degree, are you going to write your own paper on this object? As always awesome video and very cool outro! Clear Skies!
As always, you make me want to move forward to more challenging targets. I will get out once the smoke from Canada clears. I am in the "lower 40" (as the farmers say), here in Indiana. I do feel sorrow for the Canadians. Anyway, just wanted to tell you that your content just keeps getting better. I see a future for you in astrophotography!
It's very much like Eta Car! Except for it's star type and it's due to explode much much later.. which is why the outburst early is a bit of a mystery!
I live in a trailer park and the management just put up a huge lighted sign on the corner of my lot. This has rendered my night sky useless for astronomy. Enjoy your videos.
Nice shot! 26 hours on a single target is nothing to sneeze at. Most of mine are usually in the 20-30 hour range, although my record is 114 on M82.. I think. Enjoyed the video, CS!
Saved by Kurt from Astroquest1 think I may have to check out the RASA again although I'm sure I only nipped up the dew ring on that, great image Dylan I really need to go for much longer integration times.
I need a planetary filter. As in seeing through the earth so I can see the Dragons of Ara. Alternatively I would need to travel to the southern skies! I recall this object was subject of an APOD late 2022. The O shell Reminded me to try to get the Squid and Bat but it’s been cloudy for months (years) in Santa Fe NM. Mostly during the night. So…I may have to become a solar guy for a bit❤
Amazing result Mr D , I like to see targets that we cant get here, I did notice faint horizontal lineage in the blue, is that just because you cranked the S^%t out of it? Hope you get all 16 bits back soon. Looking forward to the next vid!. Dave. London UK.
No, too destructive for that I'd imagine .. and the star is so bright it's goldilocks zone would be huge.. a protoplanetary nebula / disk is quite stable with the material swirling around the star flat where it can coalesce.
The QHY filter wheel just needs either the cable to the camera or the USB. Not both. It operates in one mode or the other. Instructions let you know how to change (push a button) and the LED colour
So you also have a 268M stuck in customs, mine went in for repairs because the filter wheel wouldn't work soon after putting it to work. From my experience you can expect to wait a full year before your camera comes back from China. It was really annoying all the while I waited. Apparently because of the Covid shipping delays.
@@DylanODonnell I'd get with astronomers in my astro-club and talk to them. There's a couple that does searching for NEOs with their own .7 meter Plane Wave and they'd point me to someone who'd have an idea of what to say about your raw data. Be happy to write a full description and possibly come up with a hypothesis on it.
It looks like i'm not alone with the horizotal lines/banding on my (Imx294 svbony brand) eh? This sensor is a bitch specially with slow systems and narrowband. Mine is color tho... Funny fact I was stretching the same target before I took a break during a new stack with cleaner frames and decided to see whats was going on youtube
dude thats epic! I could see the slight quality improvement but it's kinda essential for this faint stuff. bright stuff you can get away with super short runs.
@@DylanODonnell I am shooting the gravitational lensing in Abell 2218 cluster. The faintest arc is 24 mag so I need a ton of subs. Also I shoot with a 8 inch scope, so again I need a ton of subs. If the weather cooperates I will finish this autumn.
@@DylanODonnell Yes, it is. Well first I wrote an exposure time calculator in python to see if it is doable. Once I ran the numbers I saw it was possible. After 80 hours in luminance filter I identified 3 arcs. This spring I took 20 hours per RGB and now I am continuing with Lum. If you have a windows machine I can send you the exposure time app somehow?
"presence in blood" :)))) lol, that made my day (reference to chubbyemu - love his ER videos, btw). great video on the Dragon's egg. got some really cool stuff to see downunder :)
@@DylanODonnell send me the data, the challenge is there isn't a "smoking gun" star like a white dwarf or hot subdwarf in the area, confirmation is difficult without it. also the french guy who does the cataloguing has been on vacation for like two months so no amateurs have gotten anything confirmed lately
Lovely final image Dylan, some serious integration time on this one and nice to see just the Egg focussed on. I still need to finish the dragons, just hoping to get another clear night down here in Geelong soon. Oh nice guitar outro too 🎸
Holy Steely Dan, Batman! For a second there, I thought you were Walter Becker, back from the dead. Great strummin', mate! Oh, yeah. The picture was cool, too, I'm a visual guy, so I don't think I'm missing much but you made me ponder the age-old question, "To photograph, or not to photograph. That is the quesion". Keep up the great work, Dylan!
The imagery to illustrate the "middles aged and growing larger" had me in stitches! Absolutely fascinating video exploring your image of Dragon's Egg nebula as well of course ;-)
Fantastic image of NGC6164/6165, I discovered this outer shell back in about 2000 from an Astrophysical Journal. I have visually observed the shell in a 20" and 25" scope with an OIII filter attached. I have only just started my journey into Astrophotography and also shooting with a single-shot colour camera but I hope to capture it once the moon moves away.
Whoa, that's outstanding 🤩 Bravo!!! Had to check Stellarium to see where that is . . . max alt is 1° 55' below the horizon for me 😩 So very close, but yet again, I'm latitudinally challenged. Thanks for sharing another southern beauty. Cheers!
This is awesome! I have just started imaging NGC 6188 in Portrait from my backyard in the Northern Hemisphere (Texas) last few days. It is barely above my horizon this time of the year so my window is very small. I was intrigued by the Dragon's egg that showed in my picture. This video came just in time. I am taking an image of NGC6188 with my small 72mm refractor but I definitely plan to take a closer look at this beautiful star with my bigger refractor when I get a chance next year. Kudos for the awesome channel!
Hi dylan just received my star adv. gti waiting for them screws on amazon to get the scope on it ASI 533 MC Pro + ZS61 II + Asi 120MC-s guide cam excited to try it out soon
G'day .. funnily enough I have been trying NGC 6188 with NGC 6164 for a few days now but watching your vid made me push the stretch a bit harder to see what I could bring out and was a little surprised at what was there so thanks .. 👏
Like others have said, I’m compelled to my write my first ever comment. This is a great video, a great photo, and I really enjoyed the research and discussion about the nebula. On top of that, 8:12 is the best moment in astrophotography YouTubing in a long time. Thanks!
Hi Dylan! I know that everything is meaningless and we are all going to...yeah. but while im still here i have to tell you i like you and enjoying your work. Good luck "killing" all gremlins😊
