Cone, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree widefield

[GordonH]

Hi All

This is one of those subjects where I have had several attempts since I started imaging the night sky, this is a wide field shot taken with the Takahashi FSQ106ED and Starlight Xpress H36 on a Paramount ME. It is 10x20 minutes witha 5nm Ha filter with auto guiding done by a Lodestar camera and OAG using dithering. Although it was clear there was a lot of sky glow even before the moon came up.

This is a relatively faint object and really does benefit from the longer 20 minute sub frames even at f5. Hopefully if I get time and some more clear weather I will add the OIII and SII otherwise it will have to wait until it comes round again later in the year. My earlier efforts can be seen in the image gallery of my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk and a full size high resolution uncropped image can be seen on my oher website Gordon Haynes's Photo Galleries at pbase.com

Thanks for looking

Best wishes

Gordon

[Catanonia]

Lovely image and the 1st time why i can see why it is called the christmas tree. Never seen it until this image.

[Euan]

The full version of this is exceptional. There is an amazing amount of detail in it

That H36 is really showing it's worth

[Beyond_Vision]

A superb widefield Gordon deep detailed and smooth at the same time

Regards

Kevin

[ollypenrice]

Definitive image. I love that dark Vee shaped dust nebula which has really shown its 3D qualities in this outstanding rendition.

Olly