Deep field NGC7000/IC5070/IC5067

[SteveL]

Well, although forecasted as a clear night on Wednesday, the clouds did roll in every now and then... but in between them, the seeing was great, very still indeed. A bit blustery, so I swapped my OTA and target from Iris Nebula with the MakNewt to using the Borg 77ED@f/4.3 and the North America nebula and Pelican Nebula. I knew the cloud would cause some issues, and transparency wasnt as good as I would have liked, so I decided to image in Hydrogen Alpha. Looks like it was the right choice

Highlight of the evening - sitting in my moon chair on the lawn, leaning back and looking south, a incredibly bright meteor lit of the sky, with the trail it left behind glowing for 5-6 seconds. Not often you get lucky enough to be looking in the right place at the right time:)

"Whoah!" moment of the evening - PHD deciding that the strobe light from a passing aircraft was a better star to be guiding on than the real guide star. Yes, it did pass RIGHT through the FoV for the guide scope.

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + PHD

Imaging: M25C + MaximDL, 21x900s, Astronomik 13nm Ha (101 bias, 101 flats)

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: Registar+ ImagesPlus + PSCS2

(Click on image for the large version... its worth it for the finer detail!)

[steve51450]

that's a stonking image steve...........................all hale the borg

[Aza]

Crikey that is extremely deep.

Looks like you are putting the Borg through its paces

[Taff]

Nice one Steve' great depth in your capture.Mark

[Coco]

Wow... that looks great!..

Guy...

[lunator]

Steve

Excellent pic

The detail in the 'clouds' and the number of stars is amazing.

Cheers

Ian

[SteveL]

btw, I know a few of you would want to see the CCD Inspector reports for this rig.

[Starstrike]

Superb detail. Paul

[Paxo]

Cracking image Steve, nice to hear the Borg tried to assimilate some aero technology at the same time. Just as well your not laser guiding, you may have got 'chaffed' then bombed..

Steve..

[Whippy]

Very nice indeed Steve .

Tony..

[SteveL]

Thanks all! It was one of the best nights this year so far, and certainly one of my favourite and easiest image to post-process.

[Lester]

That image is sooooo deep, fantastic to view. Thanks.

[MartinB]

I've just spent the last 10 mins immersed in this image Steve, it's fantastic. The areas of dark nebulosity are what do it for me, there is so much wispy wispiness to them, superb resolution. You've just persuaded me I can use my FSQ at F3.7 with my QHY8

[Tim]

Ooooh, just seen this, I see the Borg has worked its magic on the Ha again

I thought at first you had inverted the image

I think a few of us at the SP saw that meteor too, there was a round of "oooooooooo"'s from all over the field.

[laser_jock99]

Nice image- one of the best I've seen!

[James]

Wow, just look at that guiding graph - mine isn't anything like as smooth

Fantastic image Steve - like Martin I've just been looking at it for ages...

James

[stefski]

Wow, Steve.....You really can get lost in the depth of this image....Very well done, indeed!!!

Stef

[SteveL]

Thanks again to all who have commented.

Wow, just look at that guiding graph - mine isn't anything like as smooth

I think its the fact that the EQ6 only had the ED80 (guiding) plus the Borg 77 (imaging) on it meant that it was pretty solid and immune from any breeze. I also did three runs of PoleAlignMax to ensure I was aligned (less then 2 arcmins in both directions)

Longer subs next time I think....

[prokyon]

Wow, so deeeeeeep!!!! Great work, I like it!

[peter shah]

another top shot steve...as said before very deep.....that is a pretty flat field curvature too!