Which shed nebula in monochrome?

[ollypenrice]

Sorry, I mean Witch Head.

This is so frustrating. I like this data. There is about nine hours of it but there's a catch. Some of it was taken with Tom's 11 meg camera and no reducer. With my cameras I need the reducer and the reducer seems to be generating a blaze of colour and spikes from nearby Rigel. In this image I simply erased my spikes and artefacts from the Tom data underneath... but I haven't got an 11 meg about me for the colour and last night's RGB is a scrapper. Maybe colour in 2 panels at native FL. 12 hours at the very least, maybe double that. Hmmm.

I need to think about this but for the moment I thought I'd like to share the mono because the Witch Head is surely one of the greatest and spookiest of objects.

Olly

[NickK]

Let me see- you have dark sky, more toys to play with, a mass of time and you're still looking for sympathy??

Looking good- I think I'll take the easy targets such as splitting m42's trapezium (A to I)..

[Tom OD]

Super cool object. I'm rotating my head to see it upside so to speak.

Also I'm off to align the Q frames and erase those Spikes from Rigel.

Tom.

[ollypenrice]

Super cool object. I'm rotating my head to see it upside so to speak.

Also I'm off to align the Q frames and erase those Spikes from Rigel.

Tom.

I know it is usually presented the other way up but as far as I can see mine's north-is-up, no?

http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Photography/Widefield-images-including/ORION-FIN-V3-WEB/1169360248_zJFJG-X3.jpg

It also looks much better this way up to my eye.

I've tried the OSC without reducer and it has worked. No spikes or reflections. Sigh of relief.

Olly

[Shibby]

Very nice detail Olly, there's a few galaxies at the bottom (South of the nebula I haven't noticed before. Looking forward to the colour version now you've got a plan together!

[ollypenrice]

Very nice detail Olly, there's a few galaxies at the bottom (South of the nebula I haven't noticed before. Looking forward to the colour version now you've got a plan together!

Yes, they are really cute. In a less stretched version you can actually see a barred spiral stucture. Amazing really.

Olly