Heart Nebula

[cfpendock]

This is the Heart in 7nm Ha - 14 exposures, each of 20 minutes using 385mm focal length. 

 

The Heart is overhead now, so to avoid a meridian flip I adjusted the time on my computer to pretend it was 2 hours later than it was.  The mount was fine for over three hours before the meridian on this target, but I can't get the ASCOM platform (Temma driver) to let me move to positions before the meridian, even though I have experimented with the set-up.    

 

The moon is too big now, so colour will have to wait, but I'm quite pleased with the detail on this one.  Also, I always have trouble blending the Ha into RGB. 

 

Criticisms please.

 

 

chris

 

 

[mister_wavey]

Beautiful.