Spiral Planetary Nebula NGC 5189

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

40 x 3min Subs at iso1600 (Unguided)
Darks and Bias added

12" Meade LX200 at f6.3 (alt/az De-Rotated)
Sony A6000 DSLR Camera

Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Startools and Gimp


Higher Res Image here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/158671/0/

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

That's a tiny one, only 90 sec arc across. Well done.

[Paul Haese]

A smooth image with good colour and saturation but it looks like it is a tiny bit out of focus. I could be wrong. What was the seeing like during imaging?

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice one, Wayne. As Mike said, it's only tiny so quite a challenge.

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Thanks Mike, Paul and Rick, yes Paul the focus was good but seeing very bad then clouds moved in that's why I gave up after only a few hours of imaging.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Always one of my favourite planetaries this one and it's a nice shot but as others have said it does look a bit soft. I don't know if the dreaded deconvolution would help.

Cheers

Steve

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Considering how you captured this little bugger unguided and derotated alt az (was than via a mechanical de-rotator or just software?) I recon this is a great result, all the main structures are discernible, nice sense of scale to the object and the colour is vibrant.

Of course being quite small seeing is everything

Mike

[Bassnut (Fred)]

geez, given the 3min subs, unguided!, thats very good indeed, well done.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Impressive details.

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Thanks Steve, Mike, Fred & Marc, yes Mike I use a Meade mechanical derotator it seems to work well.