Pelican Nebula in Ha - 2 nights

[Dave Smith]

On the first night (Sun) I missed off the beak and didn't take darks. Consequently there were some artifacts caused by hot pixels so on the second night (Mon) I did take darks and dithered to avoid that problem and also managed the framing better.

Scope: Megrez72 with 0.8x FR

Camera: Atik 314L with Baader 7nm Ha filter

about 40 x 5 min subs

Calibrated, aligned and stacked in Maxim and processed in Photoshop.

This is also the first time I have confidentally used the high pass filter in conjunction with a star mask. All good fun.

Dave

[Ags]

Yummy!

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Agnes. I'm not too sure how tasty pelicans are though.

Dave

[Mark72]

Very nice, Dave!

Lot of details, processing is spot on.

Mark

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Mark.

Dave

[Spikey]

Lovely picture as always Dave and an excellent contrasty process. What was your high pass - 3 pixels, blend hard light and adjust opacity?

[Ags]

Thanks Agnes. I'm not too sure how tasty pelicans are though.

Dave

They taste like chicken :-)

[Gina]

Tremendous! Such great detail

[Dave Smith]

Lovely picture as always Dave and an excellent contrasty process. What was your high pass - 3 pixels, blend hard light and adjust opacity?

As far as I can remember it was 6 pixels, blend overlay and 100%.

Thanks Spikey and Gina

Dave

[Dave Smith]

I have just learned (unusually by reading the manual ) how to use MaximDL to make a mosaic. So can now make full use of the frames that I took.

Dave

[Quatermass]

A wonderful image Dave great work

[Dave Smith]

Thank you Mark.

Dave

[Gina]

Wow!! That's amazing - lovely image

[morimarty]

Nice image Dave, I've never given the pelican a thought due to the small chip size in the 314l. but having seen your image i will certainly give it a go!

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Gina and Martyn.

Don't forget Martyn that it was taken with a Megrez 72 + focal reducer giving an effective focal length of 346mm

Dave

[MidnightSun]

Beauty.....

[morimarty]

Dave i've just checked with Digital Sky Assist my field of view with the 314l and my ed80 + focal reducer which gives me an effective F/L 510mm. and unfortunately I would have to resort to doing mosaics. oh well maybe a future project