NGC 7023

[johnb]

Here is my NGC 7023 taken with the kit in my signature

Lights 40 x 300s

Darks 20 x 300s

Flats 15

Total Imaging Time - 3 hrs 20 Mins

Overall im quite happy and will add to this next year(I hope)

I have some tracking issues which is my next objective to sort.

Thanks for looking

Regards

John Berman

[Catanonia]

Good effort and a nice amount of timevspent on it.

[fatwoul]

Without wishing to sound pretentious, this image is tantalising. It's mysterious and makes me want to peer into it.

Wow. Sorry. I'll stop now.

[ollypenrice]

Agree with the above. Gorgeous core you have done there. Really high quality. Now, are you up for the outlying dust? There is a lot of it. Say yes!!!

(I'm in exactly the same position ...)

Olly

[johnb]

Up for it, yes no problem, any tips or just keep collecting data same exposure etc ?

John B

[Cloudwatcher]

Can't find much of the dust cloud around the nebula but using levels in Photoshop there is a lot more of the 'Iris' to be seen.

Like the composition by the way,very nice.

[johnb]

thanks for that, I always tend to underdo the processing but i guess thats a learning curve

Regards

John B

[Tom How]

great shot of this tricky broadband subject - as the others said, it could stand a bit more stretching.

Also suggest putting an MPCC coma corrector on the shopping list (or adjusting its position if you already have one!)

[johnb]

Thanks. Happy to upload the original tif if anyone wants to apply some processing. Would be interesting to see what could be done with it. It is 70 mb so not sure were to upload to ?

John b