SGL4 - The Pellican's Eye

[Paxo]

Here's the final installment from Lucksall. Just to fill in a half hour or so before the astronomical dawn, swung the scope round to IC 5070 - the Pelican Nebula in Cygnus. This is a well defined HII emitting region so I popped an AstronomiK Ha 13nm filter (new edition so no halo's note)into the optical train, and went for 6x5 minute exposures (couldn't do longer due to intermittent guiding problems).

Here's the technical data:

Telescope: WO FLT110

Camera: Atik 314L

Guidescope: WO Megrez 72

Guidecamera: DSI II Pro

Mount: EQ6 Pro

Software: MaximDL, DSS, Photoshop CS3

Filter: 1.25" Astronomik HII, 13nm bandwidth

Pleased with the result given the exposure time and the number of them (5 of the 6 were usable).

Enjoy

Steve..

[Psychobilly]

Hmmm ... a small part of my favourite part of the sky and exquisitley captured...

I have been toyign with the ides of getting a HA clip in for the EOS cameras to use with the OSC data...

Peter....

[Beyond_Vision]

Thats come out very well Steve for the short amount of time.

Regards

Kevin

[Tim]

I thought this one would come out nicely when I saw it coming through.

If Billy is after a clip in Ha filter by astronomik, what are the chances it will be made of the new non halo filters?

[Paxo]

I thought this one would come out nicely when I saw it coming through.

If Billy is after a clip in Ha filter by astronomik, what are the chances it will be made of the new non halo filters?

It's just a guess but as they are relatively new, they should be the 'improved' variety.

Steve..

[Whippy]

I've waiting for this one and lo, I'm not disappointed . For just 25 minutes that's pretty darn good. Of course, when the new toy arrives, I would imagine you'll be doing doing the whole shebang rather than just the eye no?

Tony..

[barkis]

Another good result from Saturday Night Steve.

25 minutes of good stuff.

Ron.:)

[CELESCOPE]

Nice one Steve, as they say ,thats come out really well for the short subs , nice one .

Rog:)

[Doc]

Spot on this Steve. I love mono shots like this.

[MikeD]

Great result, the new Ha filter looks to be doing a great job on the halos.

Mike.

[steppenwolf]

This is good, Steve - the Pelican is often forgotten against its wonderful neighbour the North America Nebula but especially when you close in on it there are some really great smaller areas that deserve much closer inspection, especially around the 'neck' area.

[Paxo]

Thanks for the kind and constructive comments folks, It's so nice that this area of sky is with us again, some fastic nebulae to record.

Steve..

[RobH]

Great result Steve, especially for just 25 minutes!

Cheers

Rob