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Thanks but I know what you mean .Its quite dire so far this winter . I have alot of unfinished images and data from previously . Eventually something gets finished . This is last years data just put together now !

Thanks . Much appreciated. I often feel the same but then will make some progress forward that keeps me going .

Hi all Here also is IC 1795 I processed last night and uploaded here as an edit on my previous post which I cant delete 🤣. Thanks for looking

Hi all My first attempt at the Christmas tree cluster . Around 20 hours of 600 second subs using SHO Antlia 3nm. Esprit 100 and Zwo 1600 mono from Durham bortle 5.

Hiya all , here is Westerhout 5 Soul Nebula Taken on a 550mm SW Esprit Refractor in Sulpher Hydrogen and Oxygen . With RGB stars from back garden ,Durham over a few nights Around 20 hours of 600 second subs with 30 seconds for stars 3nm filters Zwo 1600 monochrome camera -20 with flats , darks

Thanks. I didn't realise either. A Happy accident !

Nova Cassiopeia and The Bubble Nebula A rich area of the night sky imaged over early April with its many stellar objects and I was lucky to catch the new Nova Cas over several clear nights. The bright 'star' at centre top of the image above the bubble is the new Nova . It suddenly appeared on March 18 this year and was catalogued as V1405. There was no sign of anything bright there previously but the light soon increased to magnitude 8 and was spotted by keen eyed observers . It was originally a binary star system with a dwarf star that begun to syphon off Hydrogen from the main star and then heated. The bubble Nebula is thought to be up to 11,000 light years away and was formed around 300, 000 years ago when hot Wolf Rayet star ( with a radius 15 x that of our Sun ) ejected a shell rich in Oxygen giving the blue colour, which formed the bubble around it. The star has since moved through space from the centre to the edge of the Bubble. It will eventually explode as a supernova. It is surrounded by great clouds of Hydrogen and Sulpher seen as reds and pinks. Also seen the Scarab like NGC 7538 and M52 star cluster. The lobster claw pincers are sneaking in on the left towards Herbig Haro just under the Bubble. 22 hours 600 s processed as SHO @ - 20 Skywatcher Esprit 100 Heq5 Dark frame stellar drive 5 ZWO Asi 1600 mono SHO Bortle 5 Derwent Valley.

Its up between 30 and 40 degrees getting better as it gets later Tom.

The Cave Nebula. Catalogued in 1959 as Sh2 155 this is a relatively faint star forming region in Cepheus near the brighter Elephants trunk nebula. Given the name by Patrick Moore who thought the emission lines resembled the mouth of a cave.( I see an astral juggler aswell 😁 ) It lies to the North 2400 lights years away and this image consists of 21 hours of light at 550mm captured this month. Gases are Sulpher~ very bright round central tower, Hydrogen as well as Oxygen which gives the blue gas clouds above. Esprit 100 Telescope HEQ5 Stellar drive 5 Zwo1600 mono SHO Hubble palette in Pixinsight

Many thanks and Yes.. When I loaded up the subs that cluster caught my attention before anything else.

Thanks. Boiled and ready for consumption 😁

The Lobster Claw Swimming in to my telescopes view during clear spells in the first few weeks of 2021. Some cold nights with large accumulations of snow on the hillside added shoveling to the set up routine, the temperature getting down to a respectable minus 14. Aswell as the main object catalogued as Sharpless 157, a pretty open star cluster can be seen in at the lower right claw ( NGC 1750) with Lyn's bright nebula seen up at centre left. This huge space crustacean in Cassiopeia is 11050 light years away and was captured over 4 nights. 19 hours in Sulpher, Hydrogen and Oxygen emmisions. Esprit 100 ZWO asi1600 mono HEQ5 stellar drive 5 PixInsight Thanks for looking

Great pictures and detail. Looks like a good choice of filter after all. 😊

Thankyou and you are welcome. It was a pleasure to get such a positive response for a first image with my new set up.

Many thanks and that's great to hear with regards filters as I got a full set of NB . I headed over to a thread on cloudy nights about Antilia and saw some very nice detail with ha 3nm and no halos.. Yay.