Craney

... and the last one from the night of the 10th/11th August.   Pacman Nebula ( NGC 281).

Newtonian 150mm F4 with Atik 414ex mono.

Hubble palette

Ha: 12x1min     O3  13x1min    S2 14x 1min.

A good night last night....  managed to get all three wavelengths for a Hubble rendition of the 'Trunk'.

(31x1min Ha, 11x1min O3, 13x1 min S2).  I was battling against daylight with this one at 3:30am !!....still got the 'piercing' at the end of the trunk.

Telescope was 150mm F4 Newt. Cam= 414ex mono.

Finally got a clear night and 'most' things working...

Here is the Wizard (NGC7380), in Hubble palette.

(40x1min Ha, 21x 1min O3, 36x 1min S2 ). Short exposures with no guiding.

Got the nose and fingers !!!  Yay!!!

Telescope was 150mm F4 Newt. Cam= 414ex mono.

There's great detail in there and the central hub is not over exposed.  Nice shot.

A quick process and post image of Pickerings Triangle in Cygnus  (NGC 6979).

Taken with Altair 60mm Lightwave (FL=420mm) and ATIK 414ex mono

Hubble Palette, about 30mins of each wavelength.

SII being the least active and possibly needing more exposure time.   H-a is a riot of data, OIII produced some very fuzzy stars which I have tried to reduce.

Iris Nebula LRGB

NGC 7023

80mm Equinox on HEQ5

ATIK 414ex mono

12x 3 mins on L  ( 3x3mins on R,G,B)

Wanted to get the purple colour but nice to see it brought out the 'dark cloud'.

Thanks Adam,   a whole lot-a-stretching-goin'-on !!

Equinox 80  on HEQ5 (belt modded)

Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)    in Ha and O3 combined as Ha-O-Ha  on the RGB system

12minutes each channel (4x3mins)  due to the object skirting through trees.

Thanks for that.    I like the 'look' and feel of the colour palette, especially how it fades into the the surrounding space.  It looks HOT !!  (as it should)

Is this a  'prom' and 'surface'   combo shot  or  processed from a single image ??

Wow....  looks like a fire tornado.

Elephant TrunkNebula:     Bi-colour (Ha-o3)

Atik 414ex mono

Scope :   Orion Optics 150mm F4 newt.

Ha  11x3mins

O3  10x3mins (bin 2x2)

Wizard Nebula:     Bi-colour (Ha-o3)

Atik 414ex mono 

Scope :   Orion Optics 150mm F4 newt.

Ha  10x3mins

O3  19x3mins (bin 2x2)

With an 8"SCT !!    That is an immense capture. Well done

It has always appealed to me because I think it must have featured on a magazine front cover in my formative years, and for some reason it just looks 'remote'..... what exactly  is going on inside those hazy dust lanes ??  Will we ever know ??

On ‎13‎/‎06‎/‎2018 at 17:45, Craney said:

That's Telford lurking over the horizon.  Not all dark sites are the same darkness.

Thanks Des.

That's Telford lurking over the horizon.  Not all dark sights are the same darkness.

Good question.  I probably had a CLS  (light pollution filter) on when I took this. Depending on the wavelengths it excludes then some doubles will benefit I guess and others will not.  I imagine it is the same for the UHC and Nebulosity filters, depending which wavelengths are transmitted etc...

Obviously stacking and  a bit of PS can cause many things to happen  ?

Thanks @spaceman_spiff   To de-convolute the image title.   79x1min exposures ISO 1600 with my SW Quattro 10. Canon 600D modded with CLS filter.  Little bit of Deep Sky Stakker processing then tweeked in PS.  

Yes, This is my favorite object at the moment. I have just got a mono CCD and want to add data from Ha,HB,O3 etc. I think the ripples show well in the NB region.

Need to try and get those orangey / yellow stars more prominent.

I must do more contrasting double stars.  This was with a 1000mmFL  SW 10" Quattro.

Pleasantly pleased that the diffraction spikes came through on the main two stars.

Have tried to maintain the colours  on processing, but things happen !! in Photoshop.

Wow !!......  what sort of exposure sequence generated this image.    I have an SW Equinox 80 and 600D and have got nowhere near this quality of image.

Sean.

Wow, what a great shot.   I have only 'discovered' this object recently as my previous equipment would not have resolved anything other than a fuzzy blob.

I have now got a Meade 8" SCT so look forward to giving this a go since it is now at high elevation.   What mount do you run your Celestron on ?    How easy does you Atik image the Nebula ? ( ie.  what length of exposure will show the nebula on the laptop before commiting to the 300 sec.)   I find it  difficult to get the DSO lined up in the first place without loads of trials, tweaks and adjustments which just eat up precious time.

Cheers,

Sean.

" This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whippet"