NGC-2392

[Joel Shepherd]

I wanted to share this modest effort: this is NGC-2392 (the "Owl" or "Eskimo" nebula) from under our light-polluted skies in Seattle. Saturday night I managed to do the best job of drift-aligning my scope since I started trying about two months ago, and was able to make 20-second captures with little movement. This particular photo was compromised of 28 10-second exposures: just under 5 minutes of light total. That was enough to capture the overall structure of the nebula as well as some of the dark ribbons in its outer shell (see inset for detail).

[ollypenrice]

Very attractive rendition. Give my best wishes to attractive Seattle, from where I cycled down to San Francisco a good few years years ago.

Olly

[Chris]

Really very good for 10 second sub exposures.

What scope and camera did you use?

[tingting44]

ive not seen this one yet! very nice

[Joel Shepherd]

Thanks: I use a 150mm f/5 Celestron reflector on a CG-4 mount, an Orion mono G3 Starshoot camera, stacked and stretched in Nebulosity, and an artificial flat made and applied in Photoshop.

-- Joel.

[Chris]

Fast reflectors and mono cameras do pull in the photons. I used to have a similar rig myself.

[swag72]

Well done on a difficult target

[lensman57]

Remarkable for such short sub exposures.

A.G