North American Nebula Region

[Catanonia]

Summer is difficult as I am finding out without much real darkness to speak of.

I therefore thought that narrowband would be easier as it is less prone to problems with lightness.

So back to a popular target for the widefield lenses out there and that is The North American and Pelican Nebula region.

Nice widefield with the WO66 and Flattener II giving around 300mm @ F4.9

I settled on 15min unbinned Ha 8nm subs as this was the best I could do without significant star trailing.

This image is 3hours of these 15min subs and processed with PixInsight and Photoshop. Actually I really didn't have to do all that much to it other than a little DBE extraction.

I hope you like, it has been sometime since I posted an image.

Full sized image is here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10801850/Astro%20Pictures/Large%20Files/NGC%207000%20June%202011.jpg

[ncjunk]

Lovely image, great detail showing on my phone (which is saying something).

I got about three nights of 12 hours darkness during the winter but i have had about ten of four/five hours(astronomical twighlight ends 12:23 and starts 04:45) so far this summer....I hate to say it but I can get more imaging time here during the summer. I'm starting to hate the winter now!

[Nightfly]

Wonderful contrast throughout with delicate brightenings. Striations in the Pelican are very fine. Well done.

[ollypenrice]

Excellent. I did this area (or a bit of it) in Ha with my ZS66 a few years ago and I think the scope is particularly good in NB. Very sharp.

Good to see you back in the saddle.

Olly

PS, IC1396 is a good one at 300mm...

[George]

Nice image Cat, love this time of year as there are some great targets visible, shame the nights are too short tho.

[Catanonia]

Thanks everyone, good to get an image in.

The WO66 is nice for widefield, might try and expand this region as a super mosiac.

[R Fisher]

Very strong contrast with nice FOV.

[mark7331]

Great image Cat! Nice to see one from you again. I have to say I prefer the summer just because there's slightly less cloud than the winter...

[Catanonia]

Been adding to it last night.

2 panes now at 300mm and F4.9 6 Hours total.

Full sized version here, 5mb download.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10801850/Astro%20Pictures/Large%20Files/NGC7000%20Mosiac.jpg

[Coco]

Very nice cat..

full of interest..

[Catanonia]

Very nice cat..

full of interest..

Cheers Coco,

I am going to keep adding to to year after year with the scope setup and hopefully end up with a big mosiac