Cocoon and some tail, despite Astrotortilla

[cfpendock]

  I had previously framed this image and stored it’s position on Astrotortilla for future use - I can then normally return to precisely the stored position within a few seconds, and this can save time aligning the image, as well as excessive cropping during processing.  However, I do have some problems with Astrotortilla when there are dense star fields, and this time I wasted a lot of time fiddling with the settings before eventually giving up and re-framing using direct input to the RA and DEC controls.  

 

So unfortunately only 45 minutes each of LRGB were possible.  The image is consequently very noisy and I found it impossible to pull out more detail.  I would eventually like to double this time and add some Ha, but this will depend on the weather…….

 

Any clues about my Astrotortilla problems when in dense star fields, or criticisms of the image would be good.

Better resolution here:  http://www.astrobin.com/full/210493/0/

Chris

[Uranium235]

Looks great, though I must admit - astrotortilla always seemed like too much faff for what it does, cant beat a bit of manual!  

[cfpendock]

Thanks Rob.  I think you may be right, although when it works (90% of the time for me), it really does it's job well..

Chris