Bubble

[Shibby]

The Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) is 2nd light with my new Atik 428ex.

Before receiving the camera, I was concerned that the high arcsec/pixel sampling was going to be a problem with my optics and small field of view (I thought I'd need a shorter focal length and/or more expensive optics to achieve any kind of image quality) but I must say I'm quite pleased with the resolution & performance of the 150PDS. I know I won't be getting wall-hangers printed (unless I mosaic), but presentable on the web I think.

I'd still like better optics, of course Something that doesn't have a shiny silver focuser tube sticking half-way into the light path!

Capture: 15x600s in Ha, 428ex

Optics: SW 150PDS

Mount: (good old) Vixen GP

Guiding: SPC900 + finderguider

I still have a lot to learn with processing of high SNR images, but here's by best effort:

Here is a 100% crop, at 1.38"/pixel; warts quite apparent here:

Here it is combined with some old, very poor quality DSLR colour. I like to think of this as adding a bit of colour to an Ha image, rather than enhancing a colour image with Ha...

[Fay]

Lewis, don't berate yourself! They are terrific images, i would be well pleased!!!!!!!!

Fay

[VigdisVZ]

Nice one, love the colors in the last image.

[iksose7]

Yup, those are some nice images that DSLR colour data actually looks pretty awesome to me!

[msh1]

excellent shot that

[Mark72]

Nice bubble Lewis.

Few images are very impressive at 100% resolution. Yours is still a good one.

Mark

[JamesF]

Very nice. Well done.

James

[StuartJPP]

I am still new to this, so I prefer the colour version

[wxsatuser]

Lewis, don't berate yourself! They are terrific images, i would be well pleased!!!!!!!!

Fay

Same here. :icon_salut:

[Quatermass]

Thats a great shot of the bubble nebula nice one.

[ultranova]

Very nice indeed Lewis, The camera/scope combination looks spot on

well done,

Paul

[symesie04]

Lovely. The bubble looks very sharp and crisp to me.

[Shibby]

Thank you all, you're very kind!

Yup, those are some nice images that DSLR colour data actually looks pretty awesome to me!

It really was bad! But had some OK star color... and a good Ha layer can work wonders on some targets.

[swag72]

I think this has come out very well Lewis and the 100% crop still looks mighty good - Well done!