Your Favourite Nebula?

[AstroRuz]

The other night I was imaging the California Nebula for the second time. It then occurred to me that I'm fairly certain that NGC 1499 is in fact my favourite nebula.

I just feel that there's so much going on. It has a nice balance of dust, size, detail and structure to it. 

What's your favourites?

 

ZWO ASI 071mc Pro, Optolong L-eXtreme, Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED, Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro. 50 x 300s through clouds and poor seeing. Dark frames only (no flats/dark flats). I didn't even cull the images for any poor frames and just stacked the lot.

 

 

Canon 450D modified, HaRGB composite, Sky-Tech CLS-CCD filter, Baader 7nm Ha filter

Integration: 22.6hr total ◦ Ha - 13 x 360 ISO 1600: 4680s (1.3hr) ◦ Ha - 99 x 420 ISO 800: 41580s (11.5hr) ◦ RGB – 147 x 240s ISO 800: 35280 (9.8hr)

 

[Hals]

Very, very nice Ruz, integration time is the key to this one.

[AstroNebulee]

Great images for stacking the lot and just dark frames. Still very new to stargazing here so only image Orion nebula but have more on my list to image around Orion once the moon starts to wane, clear skies 🔭📷🌌

[mackiedlm]

Hey Ruz! Nice images.

 

My favorite nebula has to be IC1396  The Elephant Trunk. Its just such a strong defined shape within that huge cloud.

Still trying to get an image that does it justice!

[John Nodding]

I'll go for the Ruz-ette! 👀  Haha, seriously I'll go Heart Nebula.  This may change over the winter depending on what I am able to capture.  Lovely image by the way. 👍

Noddy

[knobby]

+1 for the Heart 👍🏻

[messier 111]

superb shot .

 

My favorite nebula has to be, m42 .

[ollypenrice]

Very, very nice. One thing about this target is its enormous size. Mosaic would be good... 😄

Olly

[endless-sky]

Nice shots, Ruz! Very beautiful images.

Answering your question: so far, the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), just because it's the first image I am truly happy with since I have started down the road of digital astrophotography, at the end of January of this year. New, dedicated telescope, as opposed to a bad performing kit 70-300mm zoom lens, finally gave me the quality I was after.

However, for sentimental reasons, it has to be the Orion Nebula (M42), since it is the first DSO I have ever observed through my own telescope, when I was a child.

[AstroRuz]

AThanks for the comments all. I gotta agree the Heart Nebula is certiainly up there with a great target. It's enormous and intricate and really lends itself to SHO imaging I think. Never really done the heart justice yet. 

Also M42 of course is a spectacular target I can see why it's so well known and is a lot of peoples' gateway nebula I reckon