What to image...

[Beardy Bob]

Hi folks,

I've been imaging for a couple of years or so now with a modded 350d and a f7.5 doublet and am wondering what I can image next.

I've had a good crack at the larger, brighter, more well known objects such as M31, M45 and M42, but didn't get a very pleasing amount of detail from NGC 2237 (the rosette nebula) even with 10 or so 10-20min guided subs and obviously don't have the image sharpness to see detail on much smaller objects with my cheap doublet!

At this time of the year when orion is setting very early and the summer constellations are still quite low I'm looking for ideas of targets I can try that will give me some nice images with my limited equipment.

[ollypenrice]

Markarian's chain in Virgo, the Leo Triplet, M101?

Olly

[Beardy Bob]

Mmm. Pictures of a few faint blobs of galaxies dson't really appeal to me much. I'm more of a 'pretty image' man. I tried to image m101 a while back but it was too close to the zenith! I might have another go now it's moved around a bit. Maybe that and the one that's half way through colliding with another one - that's around there somewhere isn't it?

[shaunster]

M81/2 make a nice pretty picture

[Beardy Bob]

Looks very much like I'm heading back to Ursa Major then!

[Vega]

How about NGC4565... Very photogenic side on view galaxy with dust lane and even though its not a Messier, its reasonably bright.

Matt

[ollypenrice]

Iris Nebula is on its way back and is not an Ha object. Lots of surrounding dust if you feel llike spending a couple of weeks on one object!!

Olly

[Beardy Bob]

Yeah, I saw someone had 'done' a good iris nebula with a DSLR. Might look into that one.

[ollypenrice]

This was taken at my place by Frans Kroon with a DSLR;

Deep Sky Astrophotography by Frans Kroon NGC7023

Olly