Pelican nebula IC5070

[Dangerous-Dave]

Or Nemesis the Warlock as I often think of him. (obscure 2000AD reference!)

SXV-H9, Pentax 6x7 300mm/f4 lens at f4, Astronomik Ha filter, 14x720s

I was worried 14x720s was going to be a bit short but it looks more than enough.

[derrickf]

Thats a lovely pelican - I bet the full size shows some excellent detail in the dust clouds

Derrick

[Deneb]

Nice Pelican Dave ? Are the star halos mean't to be like that ?

Nadeem..

[Starflyer]

Ooh... that's lovely, cracking fine detail and great processing

[Mel]

Lovely deep image. Nice.

Iain

[Fay]

Very nice dave. Smooth, nice detail

[Steve 1962]

Lovely image Dave.

Do you think the halos around the stars could be caused by the Astronomik Ha filter? If so, my understanding is that, if you contact Astronomik, they may replace it with one of their new non-halo filters.

[peter shah]

yeah it looks like you have enough its showing some very nice detail....great job dave

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Dave...

Still looks like there may be a slight alignment issue in there somewhere looking at the halos and star shapes in the top corner...

Peter..

[Dangerous-Dave]

Thanks for the comments. This is actually a replacement Astronomik "Halo-free" filter so I presume the reflections are particularly exasserbated by this lens or working at f4. The star shapes could be better across the whole shot, but I am not sure if this is the optics, the adaptor or mounting rings causing flex. I'll have a play with it when I get a chance but I'm not expecting too much for the price of the lens.

[Psychobilly]

I'm trying to add to my primes collection.. although my finger was hovering over the BIN button on a Canon 17-40 L series earlier...

I reckon I can get 3 DSLR's mounted on B&S heads on the Side by side bar with the HEQ5 Pro...

[Euan]

Nice result you have pulled out loads of wispy detail

[Dangerous-Dave]

I'm trying to add to my primes collection.. although my finger was hovering over the BIN button on a Canon 17-40 L series earlier...

I reckon I can get 3 DSLR's mounted on B&S heads on the Side by side bar with the HEQ5 Pro...

Why do you need a SBS bar? You could buy a medium or long dovetail, a 3/8" drill bit and some 3/8" bolts. Alternatively, if the bar is too thin, use 1/4" bolts and 3/8":1/4" tripod bush adaptor (which is what I did before I got the astrotrac).

[Psychobilly]

Because I already have it and its nice and solid... I will have either QR plates of 488RC2 B&S heads on short dovetails that can be chopped and changed using the clamps on the SBS bar...

But yes the same could be done with a length of dovetail....

[Petervde]

Superb image !

Peter

[vdb]

Hi Dave,

really nice image.

Question, how do you attach the H9 with filter to the lens, I have the same camera and a Nikon 300mm, I see the geoptik adaptor. But I fear with filter holder I cannot reach focus ....

Yves.

[steppenwolf]

Very nice, Dave - loads of good detail.

Or Nemesis the Warlock

Surely you mean 'The Marching Elephant'?