IC 410 : The Tadpoles in Ha

[Catanonia]

The last one from my recent flurry of images on the new SuperNewt @F2.8

This target was particulary difficult as there was a 3/4 full moon a few degrees from the Tadpoles for the whole 3 hours of imaging.

It has turned out quite well despite that so will go into the library awaiting some colour to go alongside it.

Here is 3 hours in 10min subs @F2.8 of the nebula.

Again getting loads of the surrounding dust lanes rather than just the actual nebula which is pleasing.

Details

Scope : TS SuperNewt 200mm 568mm FL @F2.8

Guiding : TS OAG + QHY5 + PHD + NEQ6Pro

Camera : QHY9 mono + 2inch Orange Bright Ha 8nm

Subs : 18 x 10 min unbinned

Software : MaximDL, PixInsight, CS5 and image cropped by 70% for framing.

Thanks for looking

[ollypenrice]

The Tadpoles really stand out in relief. Dark haloes around some stars there in front of the nebula? I got those as well but in the processing... I think. Eek, maybe thery're real and I removed them!

Olly

[Zul]

Great image!

[Tim]

Loads of signal Steve, especially nice to see all that surrounding faint stuff having some structure and detail to it.

There's something missing though. The image as a whole seems to lack range, and this nebula in particular has some very sharp features which have been lost to noise reduction or something. Try backing off a couple of steps or more in the processing. A great bit of advice I heard somewhere regarding processing goes like this:

"If the difference in the picture between each step is obvious, then you've gone too far"

Looking forward to more

Tim