Bubble Nebula with Atik 314L & Evostar 80ED

[Steve]

Another one from last Friday at the Norman Lockyer Observatory using the Atik 314L+ and Evostar 80ED.

Unfortunately things didn't go quite as planned! I thought I had bagged several hours of the bubble in Ha but looking at the files today most are less than 700k, not the 2,800k I was expecting!? I am not sure where I went wrong. Perhaps I mistakenly grabbed images from the Titan which was being used for guiding. I'll be more careful next time!

Anyhow, I have achieved 17x 3-min subs from the 314L+, which is enough to produce an image

I'll definitely revisit this target but I'll be after more subs of longer exposures, I'll also try some OIII.

Thank-you James for stacking and processing this one, I'll be more independent when I have CCDStack and Photoshop.

Evostar 80ED

Baader Steeltrack focuser

HEQ5 PRO mount

Atik 314L+ for imaging

Atik Titan for guiding

Atik OAG off-axis-guider

Atik EFW2 filter wheel

Baader filters

Beginners luck

[Ant]

That's pretty good mate. Nice one.

Maybe you binned the images 2x2 - that would reduce the file size?!? What do the images look like?

Cheers

Ant

[Ags]

That is the best Bubble I have seen for a while. I like your framing, contrast, and scale.

[RikM]

Yep. Smack in the middle of the frame and nice and sharp. I like that a lot.

[RobH]

Whichever camera you used Steve, it's a great image

Sounds like you binned the camera 2x2 to get the file size you did.

Cheers

Rob

[steppenwolf]

Looking very good to me, Steve - well done mate and about time too!

[Deneb]

I can see more data in that image to be squeezed.....

[ollypenrice]

It's very good. Ha really responds to looooong subs if your guiding can deliver...

Olly

[Coco]

Good result.. All things considering you turned the evening into a little gem.. Very nice bubble..

[MikeD]

Great result, tight stars, deep and very little noise, congrats.

Mike.

[Beyond_Vision]

Looks great to me Steve nice tight focus and good round stars to the corner. Keep them coming

Regards

Kevin

[davy999]

All with a little help from me ( I wish !! )

Well done Steve on a first rate image!

[Tommy B]

Super image steve! Is this a crop or a full size image from your atik 314L+?

[swag72]

I like this - Interested whether you used and darks and / or flats.

[Steve]

Thank-you for your comments

Maybe you binned the images 2x2 - that would reduce the file size?!?

I think you are right, I switched to binning when checking focus, I must have forgotten to switch back

I can see more data in that image to be squeezed.....

There is, but there is more noise too

The image was made with only 17x 3-min subs. I messed up the rest! I'll be more adventurous when I have more subs.

It's very good. Ha really responds to looooong subs if your guiding can deliver...

Olly

Thank-you, I'll try that

My thinking on the night was most images of the Bubble have a burnt out hi-light inside the Bubble. So I figured it was better to have lots of relatively short subs (to preserve the hilights) then stretch the image for the faint stuff. If I hadn't messed up so many of the subs I might have succeeded

is this a crop or a full size image from your atik 314L+?

Full size, other than say 30 pixels or so to allow for drift between subs. No reducer was used.

I like this - Interested whether you used and darks and / or flats.

No darks or flats.

I did make some darks a few days later but they weren't used. I put the camera in the fridge to achieve the same set-point temperature. My wife found me sat in a chair facing the fridge with a laptop in my lap and cables poking out from the side of the fridge door. She gave me one of those looks. I explained the camera was in the fridge so I could collect images while it was cold. "Images of what?" she said. "Nothing" I replied, "the lens cap is on". She paused, looked at me sideways, then set-about making breakfast...

She thinks I'm odd

[Ags]

Thank-you for your comments

I did make some darks a few days later but they weren't used. I put the camera in the fridge to achieve the same set-point temperature. My wife found me sat in a chair facing the fridge with a laptop in my lap and cables poking out from the side of the fridge door. She gave me one of those looks. I explained the camera was in the fridge so I could collect images while it was cold. "Images of what?" she said. "Nothing" I replied, "the lens cap is on". She paused, looked at me sideways, then set-about making breakfast...

She thinks I'm odd

LOL!

Visionaries are never understood in their time...