Butterfly nebula from Provence

[jarbi]

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned in the title I took this image during out yearly astrocamp in south France. My camera was an Atik-11000 mono CCD, with Baader LRGB filter set and Atik EFW2 filter wheel.

I had 250 min guided exposure (L: 10x 10mn, R,G,B: 5x10 min with 2x2 binning ) with a Meade-5000 127mm APO refractor. Mount was my Atlas EQ6 (driven via EQASCOM and guiding with PHD guiding ). I have done all preprocessing steps and the LRGB synthesis in Nebulosity 3, final touches in Photoshop.

On the three nights when I took these frames we had very different seeing conditions, unfortunately with some haze also. But all things considered I am very happy with this result, it was my first go on this object.

On the side note I also would like to mention Sequence Generator Pro: it worked flawlessly one week long every night, and it greatly facilitated my capturing process. So a big thumbs up for SGPro from me !

Clear skies,

Janos

[Gina]

Great image - lovely

[sologuitarist61]

Lovely image

[ian_bird]

Wow! Nice! Is it really that red?

[JamesF]

Yes indeed. Very nice.

James

[SJJ]

Really nice image.

[jarbi]

Wow! Nice! Is it really that red?

Thank s Ian, and yes it is very red. It was even obvious when capturing the red frames: they were much intenser than the green or blue frames.

cheers,

Janos

[jarbi]

Thanks all for your nice words ! Now my next challenge is starting up with Hubble palette. I have almost all filters, just waiting for the Ha. This way I can still image nebulas at home as well,

Clear skies,

Janos

[Mark72]

Nicely done!

Is it Sadr region?

Mark

[jarbi]

Nicely done!

Is it Sadr region?

Mark

Hi Mark,

Yes it is near Sadr, IC 1318. Amazing how much nebulosity can be capcured in Cyg !

cheers,

Janos