IC 5070 in Ha, WIP, Atik 314L+, The Moon and the Clouds

[lensman57]

Hi,

After over two weeks of clouds and rain tonight I had an imaging window of about 2.5 hours before the clouds returned. This is the first time that I have imaged the Pelican Nebula. I used my old SW80 ED ( blue tube version ) which I have now upgraded with a Moonlight focuser that I purchased from one of the SGL members. I also used the Altair Astro 0.6X FF/FR that gave me 360mm of FL @ F4.5 using a Baader 7nm Ha filter. I took 14 X 600s subs but only 11 were used in the stack with full calibration frames in DSS. HEQ5 Pro and PHD guiding with dithering, Processed in PI and PS. I have to clean the image up at a later stage as there are some artefacts like cosmic ray hits all over the place and I could probably do better with the NR but for now and first attempt  I am happy with this. Hope that you like it too.

Regards,

A.G

[wxsatuser]

Thats a nice lot of data, The Pelican looks very good.

[leemanley]

Some nice detail there AG, should be quite something with some colour
Lee

[PhotoGav]

That looks great. This was obviously captured with a virtually full moon and shows that Ha is definitely possible in those light conditions. How much better and how would it be better if captured with no moonlight?

[swag72]

Looking good so far!!! While the moon may have hampered your data, it doesn't show. Well done!

[astro mick]

Wow excellent.

Mick.

[lensman57]

Many thanks to you all for your kind words, if opportunity presents itself I would probably try and add some more Oiii or perhaps even Sii to this primarily Ha target .

Wish you all clear skies,

A.G