IC1396 and The Veil in Ha

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Here's a couple more images from my recent trip down to Cornwall.

IC1396 with a baby Elephant Trunk hanging down from the top, the Garnet Star and several dark nebulae snaking through the frame. 200mm lens at f2.8 on a modded Canon 100D, 53x75 second unguided subs so ~66 minutes in total. I do have a lot more data on this one but unfortunately the framing if off for half of it. Move the camera a bit more than I'd realised when fitting an improvised dew-heater (heat pack in a sock). Pretty happy with the final result though.

(Here's a bonus widefield taken the same night with my 14mm lens, with IC1396 near the centre of the frame, I like showing DSOs in context.)

Finally, here's the Veil complex in Ha.

200mm lens at f2.8 on a modded Canon 100D with 12nm clip-in filter, 36x120 second subs, 72 minutes. Can't do the beautiful filaments of the Veil justice at this short focal length, but for a sketch it's come out well.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. 

[Starwiz]

Very nice!  

John

[toxic]

very nice set of images Knight 

[Rodd]

Really like the wide field shot--amazing

[StuartJPP]

IC1396 is a tricky subject and not easy to frame by eye as you can't see much other than the Garnet Star. A good selection of images.

[PatrickGilliland]

Nice set of images - nice 14mm shot, nice to see on context.

Paddy

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Glad you like them.

Looking at the IC1396 again this morning I was less happy with it, which is so often the way. Here's a tweaked attempt.

I've altered the star colours a little, reduced the haziness that was creeping in at top-right and top-left and backed off a little on the sharpening of the nebulosity (it's a bit of a compromise, it could do with more data really).

[Knight of Clear Skies]

12 hours ago, StuartJPP said:

IC1396 is a tricky subject and not easy to frame by eye as you can't see much other than the Garnet Star. A good selection of images.

Luckily I was imaging from a dark site so could see the nebula clearly enough on my framing shots, I just forgot to check the framing properly after fumbling about with a sock in the dark.  Looking again, I haven't lost as much as I thought, only about 20 minutes or so.

I would like to add more data to this as when I try to bring out the structure of the nebula noise stars to interfere. Trouble is, I've had little success stacking runs from multiple nights in the past for various reasons.

[ollypenrice]

Good stuff. For multiple night stacking the mighty Registar takes a bit of beating.

Olly

[StargeezerTim]

Lovely set of images...