Deneb region

[Erwin Kats]

at the end of march 2009, i was in french for a astro trip.

on a morning my losmandy G-11 + vixen R200SS and guidescope were blown to the ground by the wind.

i still can’t photograph with the r200SS because i need to order a new set of OTA rings.

friday 29th of may, i was photographing with my eos 40D + 70-200 2,8 IS on 70mm F4,5 to NGC 7000 ( north america nebula )

ive captured 2 hours and 16 minuts in 4minut sub exposure stacked in DeepSky Stacker.

so first time imaging since the ''accident''

the unmodded 40D don't catch enough red...

crop with some extra editing for the nebula

[Psychobilly]

Nicely done Ewrwin...

Nice diffraction pattern with the lens ... Only need to get the "stock" filter off to turn the camera into a Ha hoover...

Sorry to here that the R2000SS is still out of action hows the rest of the kit.. all sorted yet?

Peter...

[Erwin Kats]

uh.. lol. thanks

well the bended G-11 axis isn't a problem, with guiding i got exposures around 8/9 mins.

but i will order a new axis asap.

the most damage is the R200SS ( scracthes etc )

i will modify my 40D maybe later, but i will order a monochrome CCD ( thinking about the QHY 9 )

[Cloudwatcher]

I think the original makes for a really nice composition of the area.

I don't know if this will be to your taste but I've had a play with the levels of saturation and contrast in Photoshop in an effort to bring out a little more detail.

[Erwin Kats]

*topic kick*

thanks cloudwatcher, the nebula is better to see.

ive tried a 2nd time but more widefield now ( disaster with all that light pollution )

Karel Teuwen gave me some processing tips, and it were some very good tips !

I can count 5 nebulas, 2 sides of the veil(east is only a piece ), butterfly, pleican and north america

I used an unmodified eos 40D, i still didn't had time to replace the filter

18-10-2009

30 x 4min ISO 640 F5.6 eos 40 70-200 2.8 IS on 70mm no darks