The Crescent Nebula over 16hours

[petershah]

I managed to get this one finished last night condition were variable throughout with last night being the worst seeing in a while. Its only taken about a month to grab enough data for it which is unheard of here in the UK and I wouldn't normally image this time of year as the skies don't get very dark....glad I did. I will be stripping the scope down for a service over next few weeks ready for the new season, I have a few projects from last year that need finishing.
Exposure times were 3hours in Red, 2hours in Blue and 1 and a half hours in Green with 3hours of H-alpha and 6hours of Oxygen III giving a total exposure time of 16 and a half hours. All sub exposures were 30mins each.
Thanks for looking
Peter

[Regulus]

That a beautiful photograph Peter. The full frame shot is.... Wow!!

[strongmanmike]

Well done Pete, must be frustrating imaging at this time of year in your neck of the woods, I imagine you are very happy with just being able to complete this :thumbsup:

Go the AG12 :P what will be included in the service?

Mike

[RickS]

A lovely image, Peter, and if it's any consolation the weather has sucked most places in Australia for months now :) The skies are now clear here in SE Queensland and the seeing is awful.

[RB]

What a beautiful image.
Well done Peter.
RB

[gregbradley]

A fabulous image Peter.

Greg.

[petershah]

many thanks everyone....if I was to take the full moon into account up to about six weeks ago ive only had 6 usable nights since December....its been so bad here I nearly sold my kit.......having said that I was without my mount for 6months while the GOTO was being repaired so I wouldn't have been able to image anything anyway

Im thinking about sending my kit somewhere else and using it remotely