Planatary neb. NGC 4071

tornado33 · #1 01-06-2005, 11:22 PM

Hi
Tried imaging NGC 4071 a Mag 12.9 planatary nebula in Musca tonight.
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp/ngc4071.jpg
A 12 minute ISO 400 and a 20 minute ISO 200 shot with the 10 inch F5.6 scope and 300D. Its the first time Ive captured this object. I removed gradient with IRIS to give a flatter field. Its a crop from the much larger image. NGC 4071 is about 1.3 minutes in size.
Note, it was a real pain to locate, I had to take a few short ISO 1600 pics to verify I was on it before starting my longer exposures.

iceman (Mike) · #2 01-06-2005, 11:24 PM

That's really great Scott, a very rich starfield!

Will have to try for this object visually in hector (the 20") next weekend at Kulnura! I hope you NAS guys can make it down!

tornado33 · #3 01-06-2005, 11:40 PM

Thanks!
Yes Id love to come down too, esp. to get a look through Hector

Scott

atalas · #4 01-06-2005, 11:56 PM

Another great shot Scott! PM ausastronomer and tell him your coming
on Saturday. It would be great to see you there.

Louie