M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula

[martin_h]

Taken last night

17 x 5 min subs + darks & flats

[SteveL]

Is it back already? Blimey... nicely done.

[RikM]

Lovely pic Martin. I spotted this visually for the first time on Saturday night.

Rik

[Psychobilly]

Excellent Martin... Glad you have made real progress

Peter...

[EA2007]

The summer objects soon come around again, we have a good selection to go for M13, M92, M57, M27 etc etc.

Nice picture : )

[Daz1969]

Martin, your pics have come on in leaps and bounds..

You must be pleased with that baby:)

Daz

[Ant]

Nicely done!

I (like Steve) can't beleive that it's back to that part of the sky already.

I love the dumbell - you've got some great colours in there...

[Moonshane]

this is lovely. one I have not yet seen as it's still hidden behind house from my garden.

it's not a criticism but what's the circular flare to the NW near the bright star? is it just an optical aberration?

[barkis]

Excellent job on this popular planetary neb.

We will be seeing a lot more in the coming weeks.

Very nice quality image.

Ron.

[zhgutas]

A nod of agreement with the lot above from me too very nicely done indeed. Nice colors and sharpness

Marius

[martin_h]

it's not a criticism but what's the circular flare to the NW near the bright star? is it just an optical aberration?

You think thats bad - you should see the one I cropped out! LOL I've yet to sort that out - hav'nt a clue where its comming from.

Take a look at this baby! - http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-image-processing-help-techniques/104127-2-problems-now.html

[Sam]

Nicely done, that looks great!

[Moonshane]

You think thats bad - you should see the one I cropped out! LOL I've yet to sort that out - hav'nt a clue where its comming from.

Take a look at this baby! - http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-image-processing-help-techniques/104127-2-problems-now.html

are you using a newt? I wonder if it's the bottom/end of the focusing tube? or maybe even the bright edges of the secondary? maybe flocking the edges would help?

whatever, it's a cracking image

[martin_h]

are you using a newt?

No its an 8" SCT, I stripped the image train down last night and had a look, the only way to remove the artifact was to remove the 6.3 reducer - bummer! will have to look into it a bit more.

[Moonshane]

bum.

I wonder if you could paint the edges matt black?