A Red Admiral?

[Alestrom]

The Butterfly Nebula IC 1318

190mm focal length (Sigma zoom lens)

umodded 1000d with CLS filter

5 x 4mins @ F5 ISO 800

4 x darks

Manually guided with my toy refractor (national geographic)

Processed in Pixinsight LE and Photoshop CS3

Just as a matter of interest, where does this forum draw the line between deep sky and widefield? IE is this in the wrong place? Subjective I know

[msinclairinork]

Wow well done! manualy guided too! super job mate!

Michael

[madjohn]

Great picture from such a humble scope! and manually guided too!

Just goes to show what you can do with the most modest of kit.

Thanks for posting, John

[adamsp123]

A very nice image.

[Psychobilly]

I dont think theres a hard and fast rule... The unmodded 1000D is capable of doing the biz whislt you make your mind up to mod or not to mod...

Peter...

[Alestrom]

Cheers guys.

I have been pleasantly surprised by how much red emission is picked up by the unmodded camera, adding a decent light pollution filter made all the difference, before I just couldn't do long enough exposures. I think the mod will be put on the back burner for the moment...