American and Pelican Nebulae 23-03-2014

[fwm891]

Imaged in the early hours of Monday morning (what a way to start the week).

This has been imaged with an 80mm flatfield refractor on loan from Altair Astro, to an unmodified Nikon DSLR. I shot 7 subs on this: 3x600s and 4x300s all at 800 iso and 'daylight' colour balanced.

Image processed in PI and PS-CS3. PI used to calibrate, register and stack the frames, plus initial levels and DBE to the background (this may have caused some of the mottling - not sure). Final tweaks in PS with levels and curves applied to individual colour layers.

Hope you like

[wulliam]

For someone who's just starting out - have bins and am thinking about which scope to save up for - this is incredible! Thanks for sharing.

William

[Martin-Devon]

Great widefield view here Francis - really good

[Mr Bergman]

Great image! Well done. 

[Daniel-K]

Francis we dont want summer objects yet!! great image i love the WF seeing all those stars really is quite hectic up there

[fwm891]

Thanks all for the comments

Francis we dont want summer objects yet!! great image i love the WF seeing all those stars really is quite hectic up there

Any taste of summer is good right now

[sologuitarist61]

Fantastic image with great detail and colour!

[fwm891]

Thanks for the comments Richard