Can anyone guess which DSO this is?

[Stub Mandrel]

Here's a good test of sky quality!

Can anyone guess what was lurking in the murk near me last night? Seeing this it amazes me I can photograph anything at all with my skies.

No cheating by plate-solving etc. Only clue is that you can just make out the OIII component, the Ha is completely lost in the sodium murk.

[carastro]

Wizard nebula?

[Paul73]

Flaming Star???

[Stub Mandrel]

Sorry Carol, your answer's not 'magic' and Paul, you're 'shot down in flames'!

[carastro]

I tried stretching it after I guessed and still couldn't make it out.  

Carole 

[almcl]

Well, the image opens up with a name which rather gives it away?  But it's in Canis Major, I think?

[Macavity]

I KNOW! Cheated inasmuch I flipped through a book of popular DSOs!
Bored by "One Show"? lol. It didn't take as much time as I thought... ?

[Davey-T]

Yep as said above full size has the name on it 

Dave

[kippford]

I can guess, but I would be wrong.

[pregulla]

The famous and elusive Faint Fuzzy

[Stub Mandrel]

Cor! plenty of heats here ?

I'm that desperate I've convinced myself it actually has caught the main parts of the blue bits.

[Louis D]

Is the name on the image meant to be misleading?

[tooth_dr]

I guessed without looking at the name TH

[Macavity]

Pesky Nebulosity ruins things! Actually "Spot the Asterism" is quite a FUN
game... played among friends... at the local (non) Observing evenings! ?
Doubtless a sign of being too "bookish" or too often under cloudy skies...

[Stub Mandrel]

20 minutes ago, Louis D said:

Is the name on the image meant to be misleading?

No! That's what it is, but I don't want to spoil the fun.

Here's a version skillfully enhanced with 'Pigs-in-sight':

[Tim]

My immediate thought was Thors Helmet? Havent imaged it in a while though

 

[Davey-T]

You're lucky to be able to see it Neil, I haven't been able to image it from the obs'y for a few years due to neighbours ever growing Leyandii 

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

14 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

You're lucky to be able to see it Neil, I haven't been able to image it from the obs'y for a few years due to neighbours ever growing Leyandii 

Dave

My sympathies, I have a roof, chimney and leylandii dead south to intercept low objects as they are at their best!

[carastro]

Well I can't see a name on the enlarged image.

Carole 

[Tim]

2 hours ago, Davey-T said:

You're lucky to be able to see it Neil, I haven't been able to image it from the obs'y for a few years due to neighbours ever growing Leyandii 

Dave

There is a vague hope you can cling on to. There is a mite which sometimes attacks Leylandii and causes the leaves to die back and go brown. It looks awfully like somebody drilled small holes in the trunk and dripped concentrated glyphosate in..............or so i'm told.

Southern view is a bad one to lose, is there no negotiation with the neighbours? ?

[JamesF]

1 hour ago, carastro said:

Well I can't see a name on the enlarged image.

Carole 

For me just pushing the mouse over the image shows the name when my browser (Firefox) displays the link it will follow if I click?

James

[JamesF]

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

No! That's what it is, but I don't want to spoil the fun.

Here's a version skillfully enhanced with 'Pigs-in-sight':

 

That looks like the Random Doodle Nebula to me :)

James

[Davey-T]

1 hour ago, carastro said:

Well I can't see a name on the enlarged image.

Carole 

Dave

[Adam J]

Medusa Nebula?

My best guess anyhow.

[carastro]

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Well I can't see a name on the enlarged image.

Carole 



Ah, was looking on the image itself. Never thought to look in the URL.

Carole