Cocoon Nebula (Now with fullsize pic)

[Tim]

Inspired by Kevin's great widefield of this target, I pointed the GSO 8" newt at it for a couple of nights. I'd like to come back to this one when the sky is actually dark.

15 x 1200 secs with qhy8

Thanks for looking.

Fullsize here:

http://www.btinternet.com/~mr.squeegee/Astro/CocoonNebula.jpg

TJ

[Psychobilly]

Looking very good TJ

and a nice foundation for more data when you get it

Peter...

[barkis]

That is a beauty TJ, worthy of a place in S@N magazine.

Ron.

[Dangerous-Dave]

Great shot, some manly exposure lengths there! Where did you get 5 hours of dark sky?

[Lester]

Very nice image.

[Beyond_Vision]

Nicely captured Tim and thanks for the compliment . Has this been cropped at all I was wondering what the FOV is like?

Regards

Kevin

[MartinB]

That is great Tim, I love the fuzzy edge nicely, the dark stuff shows up well and the stars look lovely. You could come back to it when the skies are darker but you might want to move onto something else, you've done the target full justice!

[moocher]

20 min subs? You animal!!!! Great image Tim!!!!! All these clear night are taking there toll!!!!! 5 in the last week and counting!!!!

Alan:)

[George]

Fantastic image TJ, love the colours.

Your lucky getting 5 hours of darkness this time of year

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely image Tim, stars are perfect and colour nice

Rog:)

[Tim]

Thanks for the comments. The image was made over two nights starting at midnight each time.

On any normal night it would have been just a sea of orange murk, but here in the midlands we had exceptional transparency for a couple of nights, and the normal glow was much reduced.

Kevin, it is cropped. The first night and second night were imaged at 90 degrees to each other, and the crop is the overlapping square from the middle, if you can imagine that from your qhy8.

I'll post a full res version in a bit, these little SGL thumbnails dont do justice really.

Cheers

Tim

[Aza]

Crikey TJ you have done a couple of right stunners with these clear nights.

I hope we get some runs like this when the nights get darker.