NGC 7008 - Planetary in Cygnus

[rich_t]

I saw a picture of this in a magazine a few months ago and had to give it a go. It's reasonably big for a planetary but unfortunatly that still doesn't make it very big (98x75 arc seconds).

This was taken last week in the couple of hours between the sun setting and the moon rising. I did the red filter last and this suffered a bit from the moon and had to be pushed a bit which is why the stars have ended up a bit red?

Apparently some of the 'stars' within the nebula areactually knots within the nebula!

LRGB exposure was 55:24:24:24 with my LX90LNT/EQ6 and H9 camera.

Thanks for looking,

Rich.

[peter shah]

a beautiful object well captured...super job!

[Whippy]

That's lovely Rich, always good to see somthing different .

Tony..

[rich_t]

Thanks for the comments. The object is also listed as object 103 in Steve O'Meara's 'Hidden Treasures' book (a good place for finding new stuff)

This is the pic with the jpeg quality improved, seems to preserve the detail a bit better than on the first.

Edit- Now I've posted it, it looks very similar:icon_scratch:

Cheers,

Rich.

[brendant]

An excellent image Rich of this object, small but beautiful, a very interesting capture and very well processed.

Brendan

[cardconvict]

thats a nice shot of somethink different

[dogfish]

I love the lesser imaged objects, particularly PN's, so thanks for sharing.

Martin

[rich_t]

Thanks for the comments, I've not had much to post recently. This is a reprocess i've since done to improve the contrast and a close up of the nebula.

Thanks for looking,

Rich.

[ncjunk]

I have not seen that before and your image is great. Wonderful detail.

[russ]

I've not seen that one before and that's a lovely image. Really nice colours and detail. Looks superb in the wider field.

[DarkerSky]

Nicely captured. I like the unprocessed versions the best - look more natural. This is def on my observing list for later in the summer

[johnh]

Great to see someone have a go at this, it is called The Fetus Nebula and has gorgeous inner red detail, unfortunately I never got round to it but it is a lovely object.

JohnH.

[RobH]

Very nice image of a beautiful planetary.

I'd not heard about this one....thanks for sharing

Was your LX90 at F10?

Cheers

Rob

[rich_t]

Thanks again. The picture was taken at f6.3 Rob, I've tried f10 but never got very far with it at 2500mm. I seem to do better at f6.3 then upsampling for the close ups.

Cheers,

Rich.

[tooth_dr]

That is stunning especially the reprocessed/close up version. Thanks for sharing.

[brantuk]

Excellent - specially the close up - nice to see something other than the regulars occasionally - good job!