And finally......

[Tim]

Starting to feel like a spammer here........

I think I posted a rough of this one a week or so ago, but this is the finished version of IC 1396 which I managed to capture at Kelling. This was also the final picture I added to my collection, and it also happens to be my personal favourite.

I am especially pleased with this one due to the circumstances in which it was obtained. There was a mighty wind blowing, and I had to park my car one side of the mount, put a tent on the other, and block the gaps with umbrellas wedged in trees. Also I'd had a problem with a cable snagging and pulling on the focusser of the WO72. The DSO before this one was NGC 7000, but it was slightly out of focus so I'm not gonna bother posting it, and also the first 6 subs of this set were ruined. So without a working focusser (no allen key) I manually,and literally shoved the focus tube into where I thought it should be, and tightened the locking screw. I'd have been pleased to get ANYTHING that night, I was especially pleased to get this one, in such a short time too, the clouds rolled in half way through the 6th exposure, and stayed for the rest of the holiday.

During processing I made the decision not to reduce the stars, as a mark of respect to the Milky Way, which played such a huge part in the Kelling nights, and there is a lovely array of star colours within the nebula.

So here is 5 x 360 secs @iso 1600, and 1 x 309 secs, through a WO72 megrez with MkII Focal reducer. Guiding was a C9.25 (@ f10). Canon 350D (modded). PHD, DSS and PS3 all played their part.

Thanks for looking, hope you have enjoyed my "Kelling Experience" as much as I have!

TJ

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[beamish]

Outrageously good You have a talent TJ. :salute:

Karlo

[Psychobilly]

Yep TJ certainly have enjoyed the fruits of your labours

Also now realise that there is no substitute for proper dark skies...

Billy...

[Doc]

Lost for words....

Awesome.

[CELESCOPE]

Well done Tim , been good seeing all your images ,and very good they have all been ,i can see its given you a lot of satisfaction being able to turn out some first class stuff.

Cheers

Rog

[FLO]

blumming marvellous :salute:

[mik]

wonderfull image great detail in there TJ

Mick

[Keagle]

Great detail and image TJ.

Kurt

[rawhead]

That really is a cracker :shock:

[brympton]

Starting to feel like a spammer here........

I don't tend to comment on other peoples images as I lack experience in this area but I have really enjoyed your recent images...outstanding....keep them coming please

[Beyond_Vision]

A great one to end on with bags full of detail. Kelling was fantastic and I throughly enjoyed it despite having a bad cold. It must have been great being there for the two weeks and it shows in your results

Regards

Kevin

[Sam]

That's a very nice image TJ - the processing looks spot on!

[Aza]

Stunning, you have made a great collection from your time at Kelling. I would be very happy

[RobH]

Great

Every bit as good as the yanks with their remote scopes on mountains in Arizona can come up with

You are really coming up with the goods Tim.

Cheers

Rob

[johnh]

I agree with all the above, you must be very proud of your autumn harvest.

[Whippy]

Starting to feel like a spammer here........

You are a spammer Tim, what with your cracking images sucking up valuable bandwidth. Go on, take 'em elsewhere, you're making the rest of us look bad .

Tony..

[Brinders]

That's a stunner Tim. Well done.

[russ]

That's an awesome image TJ. Breathtaking in fact.

[narrowbandpaul]

you certainly got a fair haul at kelling heath...

well done!

[LostNSpace]

What can i say TJ that hasnt already been said? Another A+ image from you......Just simply amazing

Mark