a Pacman in H.A. just gobbles up that Light Pollution!

[cloudbuster]

after feeling chuffed to bits with my recent heart nebula image,

i thought i'd re-visit the pacman nebula.

any how, here are the stats, and please let me know what you think....good or bad:

NGC0281 the pacman nebula

Ashton Vale, Bristol

and around half a mile from the bright lights of Bristol City's football stadium!

Camera: Atik 314L

Scope: SW Equinox 80

televue 0.8 flattener/reducer

guide camera: off axis guider with PHD

Mount: SW HEQ5

Artimus capture

Deep sky stacker

Pixinsight

Adobe photoshop cc

noise ninja

Ha filter

2.10.14

12 exposures of 1200 seconds

under a near half moon

Ha filter

4.10.14

12 exposures of 1200 seconds

under a half moon

round stars to you all!

bob

[Twisted Lip]

Wow, speaking as a fellow bristolian you did fantastically to get that from there!

Will

[cloudbuster]

Wow, speaking as a fellow bristolian you did fantastically to get that from there!

Will

thanks Will

this was about 2 ish niles from the centre

bob

[Martin-Devon]

I think this looks excellent Bob - it's not over-processed and has a lovely natural feel to it, lovely round stars everywhere as well.

Martin

[swag72]

This looks good Bob. You've got the wispy stuff around the edge so that the nebula doesn't just jump out from the black. Well done

[cloudbuster]

I think this looks excellent Bob - it's not over-processed and has a lovely natural feel to it, lovely round stars everywhere as well.

Martin

thanks Martin...ever the supporter lol!

thing is, i could of added some s2 tonight, but was not aware of the forecast...too late to set up now...hey ho!

bob

[cloudbuster]

This looks good Bob. You've got the wispy stuff around the edge so that the nebula doesn't just jump out from the black. Well done

thanks Sara

yes i went for as many 20min exposure as i could...not up to your half hour subs just yet!

cheers

bob

[swag72]

Well if you can do 20 minutes you can do 30 minutes.

[cloudbuster]

Going by other images, superior images posted by other imagers....I think I need a tak, some astro dons and a QSI......euro millions here I come!

[Quatermass]

I used to live in bristol and the light pollution is terrible there so this is a most excellent job.

[pmesquita]

20 minutes on a SW HEQ5...that's great work! I don't dare go over 600s on a AZ-EQ6...yet!

I'm curious, what was the narrowband figure of the H-a filter? 12nm, 6nm?