NGC1977 Landing Eagle Nebula

[Robby]

Hi all,
Finally a clear night here... Well sort of. Plan was to revisit M83 with new knowledge & kit, but that part of the sky was cloudy. So I remembered a mental note I'd made to myself about shooting NGC1977 before Orion disappears for the year. Got a few shots in, before the whole sky clouded over :doh:
To make matters worse I realised as soon as I came in that I had been shooting in Small Jpef setting. Arghh.
At least it made stacking & processing a breeze! Fine for the website though.
Image details are...
C8 @ f/6.3.
Canon 300D @ ISO1600 Jpeg Small fine setting!
7x2min dark frame subtracted images
Guided with ST80, ToUCam, Star-Mate, & K3CCDTools as usual.
Processed with Photoshop & tidied up with NeatImage
Cheers

[Robby]

And now for the pic!

[Robby]

If you look carefully enough, this actually looks like an eagle, claws out coming into land......

[rumples riot]

Lovely Robby.

[seeker372011]

very nice picture as usual..even though I prefer the common name "Running Man"

come to think of it on second thought it does look like an eagle landing

[Robby]

Aha..! I was trying to remember the common name for it!! That's it. Thanks seeker.

[iceman]

That's beautiful Robby! One of your best nebs!

[westsky]

Nice one Robby,
In some parts of the world it is known as the "Ghost nebula"
I can just here the Whoooo now :-))

David.

[ving]

nice pic :)
i think it looks like a goose myself tho :P