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[alacant]

Hi everyone

The last of the new moon images for this month. It's a bit on the pastel side of manley-wax-crayon colouring but you can see the difference between the reflection and the emission nebulae at least but I really hate when the foreground stars FWOABW  'push away' the nebulae, refractor style. I think I've traced it to a rather heavy hand on deconvolution... Still thinking.

Thanks for looking and please do feed back on stars, colouring or WHY.

700d @ ISO800

Edited October 21, 2020 by alacant

[andrew s]

I love the centre portion and the fine diffraction spikes, almost ready for an xmas card.

Regards Andrew 

[Adam1234]

Looks great to me. I'm still waiting for the clouds to clear here so I can image again, it's been cloudy for the last 3 or 4 weeks, and at least for the next week 😭 It will probably be clear for me on the full moon 🤪

[Erling G-P]

A very nice image for sure; love the colours.

What's the scale - is it wide field, and what constellation is this located in ?

[alacant]

2 hours ago, Erling G-P said:

is it wide field,

Hi and thanks for your post.

Quite wide. The nebula extends beyond. It's located in Auriga.

HTH

 

 

Edited October 20, 2020 by alacant

[alacant]

8 hours ago, Adam1234 said:

cloudy for the last 3 or 4 weeks

... and for a change, we can't blame it on anyone taking delivery of a new telescope;)

Edited October 20, 2020 by alacant

[Adam1234]

52 minutes ago, alacant said:

... and for a change, we can't blame it on anyone taking delivery of a new telescope;)

We've got to blame it on something!

[alacant]

2 hours ago, Adam1234 said:

We've got to blame it on something!

Mmm, quite. Well, we're not allowed politics, so how about we go for the virus then instead? 

Edited October 20, 2020 by alacant

[Adam1234]

I suppose I could just blame it on me living in the UK 

[alacant]

1 hour ago, Adam1234 said:

living in the UK 

Maybe there was a large stockpile of dodgy 72mm department store reflectors with wobbly tripods and high resolution colour pictures of Saturn on the box in a warehouse in Hull. A second had car dealer bought the lot and he's doing a roaring trade knocking 'em out a 300 quid a pop on the black market. Yeah, that must be it.

[ollypenrice]

Nice separation of reflection and emission.

 

[MarkAR]

Nicely done.

 

[gorann]

Yes, as already said, you nicely separated the blue reflection - many have failed in doing that. Like it!

[Andy R]

17 hours ago, Adam1234 said:

We've got to blame it on something!

Sorry guys I stripped my rig down a few weeks back to add a  EAF and spacers for my back focus. Not seen the stars since.  

Nice image thou

[alacant]

1 hour ago, Andy R said:

I stripped my rig down a few weeks back 

Ah, well that explains everything!