Ic 443.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi,

Here's a tough one for an unmodded DSLR!

IC 443 the jelly fish nebula, only gets up to 31 degree's above the Northern horizon, so there's not much of a window for taking decent subs.
This is a cropped image just to show the brighter part of the nebula. Still I'm pleased that I was able to show quite a bit detail in the head of the jelly fish.
It took a lot of processing to get this much, ( see original frame ).

8” F/4 astrograph , baader type coma corrector,. HEQ Pro 5 mount, orion mini guider.
Camera.
Unmodded Cannon 1100D. Cooler box.

16 x 8 minute subs ISO 800 . Darks, Flats and bias frames applied. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker .Processed in Photoshop 7 .
Cheers,

Justin.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Nice capture Justin, and good processing, bringing out the Jelly.

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Justin that's an incredible result from that data! Well processed!.
Graham

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

It took a lot of processing to get this much, ( see original frame ).


Justin.

Well....pretty amazing what's your latitude..?

Mike

[atalas]

Nice pic Justin.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Astroman

Nice capture Justin, and good processing, bringing out the Jelly.

Thanks Andrew!

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

Justin that's an incredible result from that data! Well processed!.
Graham

Thanks Graham !

I'm getting the hang of squeezing out every last drop.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well....pretty amazing what's your latitude..?

Mike

Thanks Mike!

33 degree's 50 minutes.

Originally Posted by atalas

Nice pic Justin.

Thanks Louie!

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

You're an imaging machine Justin! Nice effort on this one.

Cheers

Steve

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Good one, Justin! Its so faint yet you have teased so much from the data

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

You're an imaging machine Justin! Nice effort on this one.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve!

Like getting my money's worth out of my gear.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Good one, Justin! Its so faint yet you have teased so much from the data

Thanks Laurie!

Yep had to tease it a lot.

Cheers,

Justin.

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great effort to capture that nebula with an unmodified cam!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by prokyon

Great effort to capture that nebula with an unmodified cam!

Thanks Werner!

Not an easy target.

Cheers,

Justin.

[ehgore1978 (Scott)]

good stuff im still practising processing hopefully can use every bit of data possible like this

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by ehgore1978

good stuff im still practising processing hopefully can use every bit of data possible like this

Thanks Scott!

Louie Atalasidis tutorials on photo shop are great, well worth a look.
http://www.atalas.net/

Cheers,

Justin.

[ehgore1978 (Scott)]

sweet these tutorials looks interesting!

cheers

scott