Part of the Heart nebula in Ha, another first.

[lensman57]

Hi,

A very promising start to the evening was ruined by the clouds that were not supposed to have been over here tonight, I could only manage 9 subs in 7 nm Ha of which 8 were used. I could not take any Oiii data due to the clouds. 8 X 600s captured in Neb3, stacked in DSS and processed in StarTools. Atik 314 L @ -20c, Baader 7nm Ha filter, Ascension 8mm ED APO @ F4.8. HEQ5 and Phd guiding. Bias and flat frames but no Darks

Regards,

A.G

[andyo]

Nice shot with some very nice detail. Had the same problem with the clouds myself got set up started to image but the clouds rolled in before I could capture any subs ah well such is the nature of this astroimaging lark

[Sp@ce_d]

Good start. same deal with the clouds here too.. I like this part of the heart, there's some interesting structures to pull out. You'll want some decent seeing for OIII mind.. fingers crossed for you.

[swag72]

Looks good so far - the OIII and SII really makes this region pop.

[lensman57]

Nice shot with some very nice detail. Had the same problem with the clouds myself got set up started to image but the clouds rolled in before I could capture any subs ah well such is the nature of this astroimaging lark

Hi Andy,

Many thanks, The funny thing is that once I packed up and came in was about 10.15 pm by the time I went to bed about 11.30pm it had cleared again but it seemed like there was a lot of minute ice paritcles in the air, the appeal of the warm bed was overwhelming.

A.G

[lensman57]

Thank you all very much for your kind words, will have to see if the weather holds up tonight. Although I have overspent well above my target for this hobby, at times like this I wish that I had a camera with a much larger chip, well can't have everything I guess.

Regards,

A.G