Big phat Pacman

[Uranium235]

Hiya,

Just got in from the session and done a quick stack of NGC281. The colour balance is a little off at the moment but its a bit late to be fiddling with that right now. Will tag the Ha version on too.

Had a horrid time with the guiding and ended throwing away a ton of subs, but heres what i managed to squeeze out of what I got.

NGC281

10x300(Ha) 8x240(o3 2x2bin)

Thanks for looking

[Doug]

Very nice indeed

Doug

Essex

[Coco]

Wonderful... very nice indeed.

[JohnR]

Wow,i really llike the b&w one

[Uranium235]

Thanks guys!

The colour one could have been a bit better, but I had to bin the O3 becuase it was getting pretty late (1am), the moon was up, and the cold was starting to bite. It turned out to be a good target anyway as it was on the western side of the meridian (my guiding is always pants in the east.... not sure why).

Note to Artemis caputure users: Ive noticed that if you close the cooler window the software seems to lose track of the CCD temp and it goes into freefall. Its def not the camera but a software glitch I think. I left the cooler window open last night and it was fine all evening.

[Tim]

Nice, the ha layer is strong, I love that dark wispy stuff all over the nebula that the ha filters show off.

[jnp]

This is suberb work (that I now appreciate trying to process my data to poor results). Yours is 3 dimensional, smooth and nicely resolved. This cant just be down to using Ha.

I can see diffection spikes so what scope are you using, surely not just a SW 150P?

Guiding pants in the east? try preloading the scope balance the other way.

[Uranium235]

Yep this is from the humble 150P

Except that Ive upgraded my focuser to one similar to the DS version, which also triples the payload available. Best £59 I ever spent!