IC1396 Revisited.

[Beyond_Vision]

Two nights clear on the trot now that's got to be the first time in ages. Saturday was spent at a local campsite doing a talk for a dad and son camp followed by showing them a view of Saturn M13 etc with my Lightbridge. Afterwards I did a spot of Astrotrac-ing and captured a widfield of the Cygnus area.

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-widefield-special-events-comets/80539-cygnus-area.html


I was going to go back to the same site last night but came down with a cold. So I set up my main imaging rig in the back garden and after seeing the IC1396 on the widefield I decided to get some more data closer in.

The following image is a combination of 2hrs 20mins from last night and 35 mins from the 1st May. Exposure 7x5mins and 14x 10mins



Regards

Kevin

[Imahumanbeing]

Awesome picture Kevin. Loads of stars, neb and colour. Fantastic!

Jamie

[Dangerous-Dave]

Great shot Kevin. The dust shapes in this nebula are amazing.

[Hipolito]

All I can say is ... wow

[Psychobilly]

Very Nice Kev,

Smooth with loads of rich colour...

IC1396 fits really nicely into the FOV of a 66 especially if you have a 0.8X FR on it an an APS-C sized sensor... it looks really nice with Herschels Garnet star in the FOV as well....

Peter...

[CELESCOPE]

:)Stunning bit of work Kev, some great processing as well mate

Rog

[Aza]

Gorgeous, what an unbelievable amount of stars.

[MartinB]

It is a huge neb and you've got most of it Kevin. The Elephant's trunk looks particularly dramatic

[Psychobilly]

Its not only a huge neb... but its easy to confuse the fainter areas as "pesky red channel noise" and process it out... needs a bit of time on it like you have given it Kev....

Peter....

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks all for your great comments

Regards

Kevin