Herschel's Ray Ngc 2736.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi,

Hot, noisy and not enough data but I'm still happy with this image. Herschel's ray or the pencil nebula is part of the vela supernova remenant. I remember seeing this through my 8" scope with an O3 filter, faint bugger.

I was happy to get as much as I did, and the colour turned out well.
I have another cooler that arrived today for my DSLR, the first one packed up, so I will be able to get some cleaner images from now on.

8" f/4 astrograph, orion (http://www.astronomyforum.net/wiki/Orion) mini guider, HEQ Pro 5 mount.

Unmodded canon 1100D baader coma corrector.

8 minute subs at iso 800, total 48 minutes, darks flats and bias frames applied.
Median stack in DSS (http://www.astronomyforum.net/wiki/DSS), processed in PS (http://www.astronomyforum.net/wiki/PS) 7.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp]

Very nice, Justin! I have not seen this before

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Laurie!

Not too many images of this one around.

Cheers,

Justin.

[naskies]

Nice work, Justin! Out of curiosity... how do you normally find/choose your targets?

[Stevec35]

Nice one Justiin - I like it.

Cheers

Steve

[swannies1983]

Fair effort Justin. Just need to collect a lot more data :)

[Geoff45]

Good start Justin,
This is not an easy object. I've been working on this one over a couple of sessions. I'm up to 3 hours now, but it's not nearly enough.
Geoff

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Dave!

I use project pluto guide 8 to track down my targets, once I've found something interesting I google it and see whether it's in reach of my setup.
There's usually some images with similar gear.



Thanks Dan!

Now I have some cooling it will be worth while getting more data,




Thanks Geoff!

Yes a good project for sure.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Ross G]

Great capture Justin.

Something new for me.

Ross.