IC405 in Ha

[Tim]

Not great, not pretty, but I am just glad to have ANY image at all to be working on. Haven't seen a decent sky in what feels like months, and have had some technical issues with my kit. And check out that donut!

Out of desperation I actually took this sequence on a night with a lot of high drifting cloud, really poor transparency, and a bright moon. I'll redo this Ha section on a decent night perhaps.

I started on 15 min subs but upped that to 20. Will probably go longer than that for the proper run, and wait till the nebula is higher in the sky. I'm keen to bring out some detail in those cloud plumes. Heaven alone knows how i'll fair getting the blue reflection data

This is 4 hours or so with SXV H9 on MN190, baader 7nm Ha filter.

Nothing done to it apart from stretching it in levels only.

Thanks for looking

Tim

[MikeD]

Loads going on there TJ. I can't wait for the "proper Run" if this is anything to go by.

Mike.

[steppenwolf]

This is a great start, Tim - lots of the outer nebulosity collected already.

[moocher]

Shame about the donut but its not a bad start!!! Whats imaging?

Alan:D

[Whippy]

That's pretty darn nice for a 'run out' . I'm thinking doing RGB would be the only way to pick out the Blue and the other non-emission parts, are you going for one of your epics on this?

Tony..

[ollypenrice]

Very nice 'creamy' nebula so stop beating yourself up!

Olly

[Dangerous-Dave]

Nice one Tim. Was imaging this last night and 15 min subs seem to be the minimum.

[Celeste]

Looks good to me

(It looks like a rabbit head to me, looking left, the donut is the eye follow the line down to the left edge of your image and there's the nose then open mouth lol )

[Beyond_Vision]

Looks a great target with some real twists and knots to this 'cosmic cloud'. I wish this bad weather would let up for all of us

Regards

Kevin

[Taff]

Hi Tim' with the moon in the way, that is still a very nice capture with you.Mark

[Tim]

are you going for one of your epics on this?

Tony..

Oooh yes

Thanks for the comments, i'm looking forward to this one.

[Whippy]

Well looking forward to that then!

Tony..

[MartinB]

Looking good Tim. The blue is pretty dim but you'll get it nicely, no probs

[astroimpulse]

Not great, not pretty...

I'm in trouble because I think it's both of these

I see you're using a 7nm filter. Would I be wasting data capturing time if I used a lesser HA level filter (35nm for example)?

Maybe i should do a search because I'd like to know how these are integrated into a stack.

[peter shah]

super shot TJ the the rippled structure shows up very nicely

[Tim]

I'm in trouble because I think it's both of these

I see you're using a 7nm filter. Would I be wasting data capturing time if I used a lesser HA level filter (35nm for example)?

Maybe i should do a search because I'd like to know how these are integrated into a stack.

The 35nm filter will yield lots of detail, but perhaps not quite so contrasty, and not as easy if there is some moon about

Cheers