February 27, 2019: Iwamoto, M36, M38, and more

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Managed to get the scope out yesterday (APM 80mm F/6 with 0.8x reducer and Canon EOS 550D, and grab 142 60s lights on C/1028 Y1 Iwamoto, near M36 and M38. As it turned out, I also grabbed NGC 1931 and IC 417, and some faint streaks of H-alpha that I cannot find the names of near and below M38. I stacked on the stars in APP, and did a quick post process in GIMP. Still need to work out how to stack on the comet and combine with a stack on the stars in DSS.

Not the best of results, but not bad from my suburban garden, under hazy conditions when some idiot hadn't turned off the floodlights on the football field after training

 

[andrew63]

That's more or less the same field I had visually in my ST80 last night - the comet barely visible, the clusters lovely.  It's really good to see the scene in all it's glory though!   Thanks for posting Michael.

 

andrew

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Here is a version with annotations by astrometry.net

That does identify NGC 1907 as well, but the fluff to the right is still unidentified

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Mystery solved, thanks to this marvelous image of Jim Thommes. The blob of H-alpha is LBN 794. Open cluster Kronberger 1 is also in the image

 

[Pete Presland]

Very nice capture Michael despite the flood lights, it will be interesting to see the result when comet is stacked as well.