The Jellyfish's "Head" IC 443

[Shibby]

After a few nights, I got together enough data for some nice looking Ha and Oiii layers (despite much of the captures being under a bright moon) so processed them together into HOO bi-colour. I do still struggle a bit with my processing, I feel I can never quite get the balance (and brightness) right.

The nebula is quite a bit larger than I expected and I can't fit much of it in with my FOV, so I decided to go for the "business end" and framed it how I felt looked relatively pleasing.

It consists of ~7hrs exposure

• 20x600s Ha
• 21x600s Oiii

MN190 + Atik 460ex

This is at 50%. Thanks for looking

 

[Trevor N]

The long exposure paid off !!

[The Lazy Astronomer]

Nice. I was doing some test shots of this region at the end of last night's imaging session and was quite surprised at how little apparent Oiii there is. You've got it showing through quite nicely there though 👍

[Shibby]

2 hours ago, The Lazy Astronomer said:

quite surprised at how little apparent Oiii there is

Thanks - yeah, originally I had ~10 subs taken under a bright moon and only managed to resolve a little bit of the brighter stuff. Adding another 11x600s on a dark night made the world of difference!

[m.tweedy]

Lovely close in shot with lots of fine detail. I did this last year with a GT81 but chickened out this year. I am now also shooting 10 minutes with the 460. Same scope (i love the MN190-its my first season with it) and CCD.