Cocoon - A tricky little nebula!

[bobro]

Mistakenly thinking the Cocoon Nebula would require similar effort to image as M27, I pointed the scope in its direction. Of course it isn't quite so bright, so I had to work at my very basic processing knowledge to produce this image. 23 subs @ 240 sec, Meade Polaris 130 on EQ2. Certainly needs more subs to get the noise down and improve the image (as well as making processing easier!).

[peter shah]

The dark dust lane is coming through nicely. As you say more subs will improve on that and even show the blue reflection around the outer edges......really nice shot there

[ultranova]

Nice, lots of detail coming through on the nebula

and star colours are starting to come through nicely,

well done

Paul

[Rodd]

Looking great!  Longer subs wouldn't hurt (not sure if you are equipped for it--but 4 min is pretty long, so you could probably do 10).  Pile on the data and this one will develop nicely

Rodd