Iris Nebula

[Yawning Angel]

The Iris Nebula, dredged out of the background sky of bortle 6, around 4 hours worth of LRGB

[Sunshine]

very nice! amazing how much dust is just floating around out there.

[Ags]

1 minute ago, Sunshine said:

very nice! amazing how much dust is just floating around out there.

Well, we do live on a dustball the size of a planet 😀

[Elp]

Awesome, is that 4 hours of each l, r, g, b or 4 hours total?

[Yawning Angel]

6 hours ago, Elp said:

Awesome, is that 4 hours of each l, r, g, b or 4 hours total?

Thanks! It's 2 hours of Luminance, and the rest is 40 min each RG and B

[Elp]

I assume you're using a largish aperture scope? I ask as I've taken a similar level of exposure with a WO Z61 in a bortle 7 but have very little cloud/dust detail at all, just the initial patch around the bright centre, nothing beyond the internal cloud/dust surfaces.

[Yawning Angel]

46 minutes ago, Elp said:

I assume you're using a largish aperture scope? I ask as I've taken a similar level of exposure with a WO Z61 in a bortle 7 but have very little cloud/dust detail at all, just the initial patch around the bright centre, nothing beyond the internal cloud/dust surfaces.

The scope is an APM 107/700mm. It took some effort to drag it out of the background