The Lobster Claw Nebula: Bortle 8, OSC

[Lee_P]

Another image for my "crazy to try from a city using an OSC camera" collection! It's a 24-hour integration, gathered over 20 consecutive nights. Cloudy UK skies and the height of Summer are no obstacles for a dedicated astroimager 🤣 More info on my website here, and imaging details are below the picture.

 

 

* June 2022
* Bristol, UK (Bortle 8 )
* Telescope: Askar FRA400 f/5.6 Quintuplet APO Astrograph
* Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC-PRO
* Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
* Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
* Guide: William Optics 32mm; ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
* Control: ASIAIR Plus, ZWO EAF
* Software: PixInsight, Photoshop, Lightroom, Topaz DeNoiseAI
* 720 x 120 seconds

Total integration time: 24 hours

By Lee Pullen

Edited June 30, 2022 by Lee_P

[Mr Spock]

Excellent image. Especially given the B8 skies 

[CraigT82]

Fab image, really well done. I like the walk through of the processing on your website too (great site btw)

[Roy Foreman]

Like the colours. Very nice image.

[simmo39]

Great image, I just wish I had the get up and go to image this time of the year. Soon will be August and will start with venom!

[Lee_P]

8 hours ago, Mr Spock said:

Excellent image. Especially given the B8 skies 

Thanks, Bortle 8 certainly makes things more challenging...

 

7 hours ago, CraigT82 said:

Fab image, really well done. I like the walk through of the processing on your website too (great site btw)

Thanks, I should probably make an updated processing article soon...

 

7 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

Like the colours. Very nice image.

It was tough to get the colours looking interesting, I'm glad you like them.

 

5 hours ago, simmo39 said:

Great image, I just wish I had the get up and go to image this time of the year. Soon will be August and will start with venom!

You can do it! This was under three weeks of imaging; it's still worthwhile even when we don't get properly dark skies.