NGC7023 - Iris Nebula

[sabin_fota]

Date: 11-18-19.aug.2012

Location: Muntele Mic, Romania, great sky, almost pitch black

Telescop: Megrez 90mm APO, f/6,2 la F=558mm

Camera: Canon 50D unmoded, uncooled, P-FLT4 reducer at F=432 mm controled by APT

Filter:

Guiding: TS 8x50 cu Alccd5 controlată de PHD guiding

Mount: CGEM

Exposure: 62x300" - 310'

ISO: 800

[Uranium235]

From a DSLR thats impressive.... hats off to you sir!

[fatwoul]

Good grief. What Uranium said. For a DSLR that's unbelieveable.

[Black Knight]

I can only second what the other guys have said: Excellent image, and for a DSLR it's astonishing.

[sabin_fota]

thank you guys! I really love to have my moded camera for this object, unfortunetly is not ready yet

[Gina]

Wonderful

[fatwoul]

Oh right, yes, an UNMODDED DSLR. Even more stupendous.

[Olle_e]

Fantastic!

Olle

[luis]

INCREDIBLE !!!

(I also had a Megrez 90mm - Great scop in deed)

[farunj]

That is stunning!!

[nunomac]

WOW! Wonderfull shot!

[ultranova]

wow the colour in that, fantastic, well done

[Daniel-K]

:icon_salut:

[SJJ]

Nice image, i really do love space dust.

[prokyon]

Wow, 62x300s! Great effort, like it very much.

[sabin_fota]

I thank to all for feedback and great words

[Luis Campos]

I can only imagine that with a cooled and modded DSLR....great job Sabin!

Regards,

[Shibby]

Fantastic, you've picked up all that faint dust no problem! Just goes to show the difference a dark sky can make (not to take anything away from your achievement!)

[Tim]

That really is a very nice picture, especially nice to see such a great range of colour in the dust clouds, not easy to achieve with a 12 bit DSLR.

As for modding the camera though, for this particular nebula it wouldn't make much if any difference, as the mod only removes a filter which blocks near infra red light, such as found in emission nebulae. The Iris is a perfect example of a reflection nebula, where the dust clouds are not glowing of themselves, rather they are lit by the surrounding star field to spectacular effect. Modding the camera will yield great results on objects like M42, M27, NGC281 etc that have bright emission clouds within them.

Again, great result, well done!

[sabin_fota]

That really is a very nice picture, especially nice to see such a great range of colour in the dust clouds, not easy to achieve with a 12 bit DSLR.

As for modding the camera though, for this particular nebula it wouldn't make much if any difference, as the mod only removes a filter which blocks near infra red light, such as found in emission nebulae. The Iris is a perfect example of a reflection nebula, where the dust clouds are not glowing of themselves, rather they are lit by the surrounding star field to spectacular effect. Modding the camera will yield great results on objects like M42, M27, NGC281 etc that have bright emission clouds within them.

Again, great result, well done!

Thanks for the feedback, it means a lot

I think that the modded/cooled camera it was a big help to reduce the noise, the signal in this reflection nebula is huge and for this part the unmodded camera did a very good job