First go at Flame and Horsey

[Galen Gilmore]

This is my first go at the flame and the horsey nebula.

The dew and frost started to get really bad, so high altitude ice crystals started forming, hence the large halos around stars.

Total integration time of 1h 17m

Thanks for looking.

[geordie85]

I'd try restacking without your last set of subs when dew/ frost was around, you'll have a better end product, all be it slightly noisy 

[Galen Gilmore]

9 minutes ago, geordie85 said:

I'd try restacking without your last set of subs when dew/ frost was around, you'll have a better end product, all be it slightly noisy 

All of the subs were like that, I was imaging M45 beforehand. So this is the best I can get.

[bobro]

Isn't it great to see the horse in your own image for the first time!

[Galen Gilmore]

1 minute ago, bobro said:

Isn't it great to see the horse in your own image for the first time!

Truly, even though it is one of my worse images quality wise.

[Starwiz]

I couldn't get that effect if I tried.

Crop in on Alnitak and treat as Astro-Art (hope you don't mind).

Always great to see your first Horsehead though!

 

[ollypenrice]

Classic atmospheric damage. I agree with Geordie's suggestion.

Olly

[Galen Gilmore]

13 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Classic atmospheric damage. I agree with Geordie's suggestion.

Olly

Unfortunately all the subs had the halo around the Alnitak.

[carastro]

You have really come on leaps and bounds since you were asking what kit to buy only a few months ago.  You must be both chuffed and disappointed in this image.  

Chuffed to get your own Horshead and nice round stars, but disappointed to have such a huge halo around Alnitak which is a PITA at the best of times.  But look on the bright side, you could win a competition on the biggest halo of Alnitak which looks brilliant in the crop done by Starwiz and would make a fine bit of AstroArt.  

What concerns me is that you have a SW130PDS which is the same as one of my scopes.  I was always told that Newtonian's don't suffer with dew as much as refractors.  So are you saying this was ice crystals in the air rather than dew on the optics?  

If the latter, there are dew heaters you can purchase for Newtonian scopes.  

Carole 

[Galen Gilmore]

18 minutes ago, carastro said:

You have really come on leaps and bounds since you were asking what kit to buy only a few months ago.  You must be both chuffed and disappointed in this image.  

Chuffed to get your own Horshead and nice round stars, but disappointed to have such a huge halo around Alnitak which is a PITA at the best of times.  But look on the bright side, you could win a competition on the biggest halo of Alnitak which looks brilliant in the crop done by Starwiz and would make a fine bit of AstroArt.  

What concerns me is that you have a SW130PDS which is the same as one of my scopes.  I was always told that Newtonian's don't suffer with dew as much as refractors.  So are you saying this was ice crystals in the air rather than dew on the optics?  

If the latter, there are dew heaters you can purchase for Newtonian scopes.  

Carole 

Ha Ha, thanks Carole. That's true, almost looks as if it is some kind of supernova remnant, or a planetary of some sort.

I am fairly sure the moisture was airborne, as afterwards some high altitude clouds came through a few of the subs that I cut out. I shined a flashlight (torch) down the scope and saw no dew on the primary, so if it was the optics it must have been the secondary or the filter. But when I started packing up the kit, the entire scope was soaking wet as if it had rained, but it obviously didn't, so it could've been a number of things.

[ollypenrice]

Not to worry. As Carole says, you had everything in place and functional. The sky let you down. This makes you part of a club with many members...

lly