New Widefield Project : Heart Nebula

[Catanonia]

Now I have managed to get the WO66 working with the camera, my target ranges have widened, excuse the pun.

This is the start of a mosiac I want to put together of the Heart and Soul Nebula area.

Full moon last night, so here is the first 3 hours of Ha in 10 minute subs.

Shot with the WO66 and QHY9, guided off axis with QHY5 / PHD and processed in CS5 / DSS.

Hope you like as a beginning.

Full size is here http://extraview.dnsalias.com/temp/QHY9/IC 1805 Large.jpg 1805 Large.jpg

[Euan]

That's really good, tons of detail in there. It's a spot on target for your FOV

How many panes do you reckon you will need, just the two?

[Catanonia]

That's really good, tons of detail in there. It's a spot on target for your FOV

How many panes do you reckon you will need, just the two?

Thanks, unsure, this is cropped a little to remove the worst of the egg stars. I have a flattener from FLO on the way to correct this.

2 - 4 panes hopefully, want to add colour to it as well.

So tempted to get O and S narrowband filters...... Money, stop spending

[peter shah]

wow what a start:cool:

[Suffolkgazer]

Really like this image. Starting to appreciate the Ha images:D. Cannot wait to see how this image evolves.

[robertm]

That's a very lovely image and you've done a excellent job of keeping the detail in the NGC896 region. Last time I processed this area that part was the most difficult. Looking forward to the mosaic.

Robert

[glennbech]

Wow! That is great! Excellent tracking and focus. Tight stars for 10 minute subs! You get about the same FOV as my Megrez 90 + canon DSLR. Perfect target.

Stitching and adding colour seems like an exciting project ;-)

[Cloudwatcher]

Oooo! Excellent detail.

[ollypenrice]

Your best yet? The exposure is beautifully balanced with both bright and faint easy to see. Good signal, good focus... great image.

The colour is slow for this one but go for it!

Olly

[Catanonia]

Your best yet? The exposure is beautifully balanced with both bright and faint easy to see. Good signal, good focus... great image.

The colour is slow for this one but go for it!

Olly

Thanks Olly, without SGL and particuliar experts like you I would never have progressed so far. Hopefully will have the WO Flattener II from FLO soon to save me from having to crop, also faster F ration and biger FOV too

[ollypenrice]

Even without the FF you may find that overlapping areas of a mosaic tend to cancel out some of the curvature effects of each so you can get away with keeping a bit more of the images as they overlap. Not the most 'correct' of solutions but needs must!

I think this will be a great image. How are you going to build the mosaic? Registar? The hard way? (I've never done that, I confess.)

Olly

PS I'm a long way from being an expert! The way I see it, we are all in this together. I'm constantly getting help and advice form all sides, thank goodness.

[Catanonia]

Doing the mosiac by hand, PS, rotation, layers merging etc.

Thanks for the advice on merging , will bare that in mind.

Tried to get the middle part, between the nebulae, but clouds put paid to that last night.