The Eskimo Nebula....F10 guided with 14" LX200GPS

[RobH]

Hello all,

Here's the second helping from my marathon imaging session of the 1st/2nd.

I love this planetary

Guiding at this focal length was a little tricky, I lost 11 frames while I was tweaking the guider settings...adjusting RA aggressiveness/hysterisis etc.

I did switch the guiding off to see if it'd be better or worse....worse!

Frames are 90 seconds each. At 2 minutes I was getting some trailing and also didn't want to burn out the very interesting central area. This is a bright, if small, object so with the 14" I think 90 seconds was enough.

Eventually I got the guiding settled and this is the result.

I had a go at F25/30 seconds but....... ....still, had to try!

39 x 90 seconds

LX200 GPS 14" @ F10 / Atik 16 HRC

Guided with a TAL 100R @ F10 / DSI PRO / PHD

Cheers

Rob

[jgs001]

Rob, That's a stunning image. I like that.

[CELESCOPE]

Thats a corker Rob , heheh yea i bet guiding that beast ,you have done well there mate ,and the HRC

has done good as well , love the colour on that ,super detail as well .

Rog

[Sam]

That's a stunning image Rob - well done. The centre bit really stands out as does the colourful eskimo hood.

[centroid]

That's a great 'Eskimo' Rob.

Nice work!!

Dave

[jarbi]

One of the best Eskimo pictures I've ever seen, congrats Rob ! I can imagine guiding @F/10 can be more than tricky.

cheers,

Janos

[anthony]

That is great. Technically a very demanding image and well achieved.

Superb

Anthony

[barkis]

Top of the Pops that one Rob. What a strange object. It looks totally unreal, but it is, and fantastically so. It would be interesting to see a planetary nebula stranger than this one.

A most excellent Image.

Ron.

[dogfish]

I love that image. PN's are my absolute favourite objects to observe.

Thanks for sharing.

Martin

[steppenwolf]

Lovely image, Rob - I know of the object but have yet to see it for myself!

[plasma.d00d]

Wonderfull image , well done :hello1: , your patience has trully paid off

[thing]

Cracking image. Believe it or not I've just walked in after viewing the Eskimo. A little dull circular blob is what I saw and you can turn it into an image like that. Fantastic.

[RobH]

Cracking image. Believe it or not I've just walked in after viewing the Eskimo. A little dull circular blob is what I saw and you can turn it into an image like that. Fantastic.

Thanks folks, your words are greatly appreciated

I had a look visually myself last night Monsieur Thing, through the 14".....dull round blob!!!

I did view M42 visually though, truly stunning....the Trap area was better than I've ever managed to image....jewels of stars!

Don't you wish our eyes could see as well as a CCD....or an owl

Cheers

Rob

[Beyond_Vision]

Cracking image Rob and I agree with Barkis it's a really unusual shape. Looks just like the image on my Phillips Deep Sky Calendar.

Regards

Kevin

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thats a very detailed image Rob, very nice.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[MartinB]

Fantastic work Rob. One of the best Eskimo's I've seen. The stars are spot on.