NGC6888 - revisited

[adavies660]

This is work in progress but looking good just from the Ha images I have collected last few nights. Atik 16IC, Altair ED80, IOptron CEM60. 

[MikeODay]

  Too low in the sky for me - it's looking good already I look forward to seeing it when it's finished.

[Jannis]

Looks like you've captured quite a bit of details there. Can even see some fainter parts around it.

[Rodd]

Nice scale--maybe a tad out of focus?  Great signal strength

[ollypenrice]

19 hours ago, Rodd said:

Nice scale--maybe a tad out of focus?  Great signal strength

I wondered about focus, too. It's comng along, though.

Olly

[steppenwolf]

I too like the scale of this image but agree that the focus is soft. It would appear that you have used an Ha filter with a colour CCD camera (nothing wrong with that - it can work very well) but there is still some RGB colour in your image which is a little strange. A better result might be achieved by extracting just the red channel from your colour image or perhaps capture the data with the camera set to 2 x 2 bin to destroy the Bayer matrix and collect the data even quicker. If your camera is a mono camera then it would be interesting to know where the colour pixels have been generated from!

It's a good start though on a fascinating object.