My latest effort on the IC5148 OIII halo

[Stevec35]

This has 18.5 hours of OIII and still looks a little colorless. I don't think my backyard is the ideal environment for imaging faint planetary nebula halos.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/IC5148_STXL6303_RC14.htm

[Paul Haese]

Very nice Steve. A very faint halo indeed. Congrats. Well mega'ed up.

[RickS]

Well done, Steve! Just think... another 45.5 hours and you'll have twice the SNR :lol: The halo of IC 5148 is a very faint, elusive and difficult target.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Stevec35]

Don't have the patience mate - not like you. I suppose though if Sakib gets his OIII survey up I might be doing more of this stuff. Fortunately we've had reasonable skies recently - very unusual.



Thanks Paul. As you said up at Parkes it looks like mega is the future.

[Shiraz]

wow, that is really beautiful Steve - top work.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Ray

[sjastro]

Well done Steve.

Steven

[Stevec35]

Thanks Steven

[marc4darkskies]

Exquisite Steve! :thumbsup:

Cheers, Marcus

[atalas]

Very cool Steve!

[Ross G]

An amazing capture Steve.

What a beautiful photo!

Ross.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Ross - glad you liked it



Thanks Louie. Somehow I always seem to have a degree of luck imaging this object.

[atalas]

Interesting you say that mate because I experience the same on certain objects as we'll,a no luck on others...I wonder if this happens to everyone?

[Stevec35]

Who knows? With me it's mainly this object for the good luck. My images of it more than 10 years back still look pretty respectable.