The Tadpoles Nebula - swimming at SGL8!

[cloudbuster]

not to worry, am home now....showered, fed etc etc and looking forward to soft warm bed in a few hours Lol!

still....wednesday night was absolutely superb....if cold....but it was one of those nights....soo clear that it left me feeling warm inside (if not my feet), as i managed to bag what i think is my best (if flawed) image yet. this is my 3rd ccd effort and for once the stars look quite sharp....no flattener or reducer used:

IC410 the Tadpoles nebula

Lucksall campsite, nr hereford

Camera: Atik 314L

Scope: SW Equinox 80

bag of batteries used to balance scope!

guide camera: QHY5 with PHD

guide scope: SW Equinox 66

Mount: SW HEQ5

Artimus capture

Deep sky stacker

rough stretch in pixinsight

Ha filter

13.3.13

25 exposures of 600 seconds

flats for Ha filter

14.3.13

taken on a cloudy morning, with white tee-shirt (as flat field panel faulty)

30 exposures of 0.25 seconds

critics and comments welcome.

cheers

bob

[T-J]

Hi Bob,

Don't know whether I do anything wrong, some setting or so in this forum maybe, but I can't see any photos. I assume you uploaded them since you want some input on them.

Great to hear SG8 was good. I'd have participated if it had been closer to where I live.

/Tobias

[cloudbuster]

hi TJ...sorry about that....have just uploaded the pic

bob

[Sp@ce_d]

Very nice I like it.. it's a todo on my list nice to so what the FOV is like for the same setup. Glad you got some clear skies.

[Gina]

Nice one

[Mr Bergman]

Really nice!

[cloudbuster]

the forecast is reasonably good tonight....so i will try to add to this then.

[JamesF]

Very nice. I've not seen the tadpoles in a wider field image before.

James

[sologuitarist61]

Excellent image and worth the hardships (?)

[AndyUK]

Very nice indeed, Bob - Definitely your best yet

[cloudbuster]

thanks Andy and all...but...

most importantly of all, my girlfriend's mate 'Shazza', who is normally only impressed with strictly x factor on ice, as well as other saturday night take-aways, was also impressed by my humble effort! watch out mr cox!