A crescent nebula and an often overlooked planetary...NGC1514

[RobH]

Hello folks,

Here are a couple of images from the batch of data I'm working my way through.

The often imaged and beautiful Crescent nebula, which could have done with more subs (must get to the bottom of my guiding issues with the 80mm) and a planetary, NGC1514.

I happened to spot this on my planetarium software and had no idea what it looked like...I love the thrill when something you've never seen before appears!

This was at the end of my Blue snowball, M57 session and the sky was brightening but it looks interesting so I plan to add more subs to this.

I shot luminance data for it but TBH it didn't add anything so I didn't use it, going for 2x2 binned OIII instead as luminance.

Details...NGC1514

14 inch LX200GPS @ F10, Atik 16HR. 5 minute subs all binned 2x2

12 X OIII Luminance

B x 11

G x 12

R x 1O

The Crescent....

WO ZS80FD, 16HR.

All subs are 6 minutes.

Ha x 14 of a run of 38

OIII x 8 binned 2x2

Hb x 10 binned 2x2

all subs 6 mins.

Cheers

Rob

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[NickH]

Wow...

[Doc]

Yes WOW that nebula is awesome.

Never seen this photographed before.

kind of ghostlike

[bazza]

Awesome Rob.

NGC 1514 is something else.

A beauty. (The Crescent's good too mind!)

Will be interested to see it when you've got more subs for it.

Barry.

[MikeD]

First class as always Rob

love the ngc1514 shot.

mike.

[thing]

Great shots and great neb, don't think I've seen this one before.

[LostNSpace]

Nice couple of images Rob.....Especially like the 2nd image, NGC1514....Nice capture.....

Mark

[Psychobilly]

A nice pair Rob and a good find with the NGC1514...

Billy...

[Beyond_Vision]

I love the second capture too, again one I have not seen or heard of before.

Regards

Kevin

[Tim]

There's another one for the list, great job Rob!

Really like the way you have revealed all the misty Ha data round about the crescent, it's all to easy to cut that out.

TJ

[RobH]

Thanks y'all

NGC 1514 really is a fascinating object, I plan to have a serious go at this one, plus just check out some other PN's, they can be undiscovered jewels it seems.

TJ, I'm glad you like the Ha stuff I kept in, this region is really rich and after a while processing I realised that it was stuff that was there, not some artifact or gradient to be removed.

Love your M57 BTW

Cheers

Rob

[darditti]

1514 is really interesting: a remarkable image. You say it was on the end of another session, but it is over 4 hours of recording! Seems like a pretty serious go to me...

Well done.

David

[Ford Prefect]

Fantastic images Rob, outstanding !!!

Cheers Jon

[RobH]

Hello David....it was supposed to be the end of a session...now I think back, it wasn't that early but I'd decided to get a relatively early night but when 1514 appeared I just kept going into the dawn....you all know how it is I'm sure!

Cheers

Rob

[markcol]

Fascinating stuff Rob, especially the planetary neb.

Mark

[RobH]

For some reason the PN looks very pixelated, it's not that way in the original so here it is again...

Cheers

Rob

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