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Final image processed from last year's holiday...........yay! This is the Cocoon Nebula in Cygnus taken using a modified Canon 350D and 200mm Newtonian reflector on a driven but unguided equatorial mount, hence each sub is 60sec. That's as long as I'm prepared to go and even then I reject a few with a bit of trailing. I had to stop everything in the middle as someone who should have known better turned their car headlights on. The joys of digital. Back in the day when I used 35mm, a single exposure of anything up to 1 hour, anyone turning headlamps on midway through wouldn't have lived long............. 51 subs used, as usual integrated and first processing in PixInsight, final tweeks in PaintShop Pro.
I like the wide field views I get with the 200mm scope, even more so when the subject is embedded in the thousands of stars we see as the Milky Way. The dark area around and leading away from the Cocoon is a dark nebula - Barnard 168.
IC5146 by Jannyfox, on Flickr
I like the wide field views I get with the 200mm scope, even more so when the subject is embedded in the thousands of stars we see as the Milky Way. The dark area around and leading away from the Cocoon is a dark nebula - Barnard 168.
IC5146 by Jannyfox, on Flickr