First proper night out since Feb 26th - NGC6888 H-Alpha

[NickH]

I kid you not...that's how long since a decent clear night here, with no wind, not bad seeing, and me not in work the next morning.. lousy lousy weather this year.

Anyway, this is also the first proper light for the Atik 314L I have on loan. It's an ICX285 chip again, and as with the ART285/Atik 16HR does really well in H-Alpha. Bright moon was washing out most of the sky.

13nm Astronomik H-A filter

Atik 314L binned 1x1

10 x 10 minute subs in Art Capture

EQ6 mount, autoguided by DSI-C using PHD guide

Post processing in CS2 using Noels Actions

No darks...no flats (too knackered)

Hope for a clear, moon less night to add some more narrowband/colour data

Be gentle...not been out in ages with the deep sky "twins" (aka the ED80 and ST102)

(click to enlarge)

[Paxo]

Another stunning image Nick. I bought a 314L about two months ago, only used a handful of times but I've been impressed with what I have seen myself so far, your image just confirms how good a camera they are.

Steve..

[SteveL]

The better weather is starting to show up with some decent images being posted. Nicekly done Nick...

[NickH]

Thanks Steve and Steve..

Hopefully some more sub time and the colour will help

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely one Nick the Crescent sure looks the biz ,and some great nebulosity in the surrounding area as well

Rog

[steppenwolf]

No need to be gentle, it is a nice clear image of a rather difficult subject!

[ngc2403]

really nice image,

i feel like i have not been out since then either but i know that it is in fact only march that i last went out so i could be getting greedy :whip2:

i look forward to your next few sub to add the colour

[barkis]

That's Great Nick. Nice to hear that things are beginning to liven up again. There's been one hell of a drought as far as images go, so I expect all the big guns to start a barrage before long.

And I really hope I haven't put the tin hat on things by mentioning it.

All I'm hoping for is some scope training time, and some practice imaging.

Ron.

[Beyond_Vision]

You certainly havent lost your touch despite the gap. Great image Nick

Regards

Kevin