DeHt 1 - A faint planetary

[Stevec35]

This is very much a work in progress as I need a lot more data. Unfortunately that will probably be a while given the weather so I thought I would post what I have so far. It's an interesting looking planetary with a double ring structure that you don't see very often. According to my UK colleague it hasn't been imaged by an amateur before. I had to use a lot of noise reduction but hopefully the next one should be better. I'm thinking a few hours of LRGB should do the trick.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/DeHt1_STXL6303_RC14.htm

[RickS]

Looks like an unusual object, Steve. Nicely done!

[Stevec35]

Thanks Rick. Actually I've just discovered that adding a Ha luminance layer seems to improve it but I'm still going to get more data when I can.

[gregbradley]

Good one Steve. Not a lot to it but it looks good.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

More data is going to help Steve. Looking pretty reasonable already though. Maybe just a little dark.

[codemonkey]

Nice little planetary, thanks for sharing. Only point I'd make is the background looks clipped (on my display at least).

[Stevec35]

Thanks Paul. Yes it is a little dark. Hopefully the next version will fix that.



Thanks Greg. It should be a more interesting field once I do LRGB because there are some galaxies there.

[strongmanmike]

Very nice Steve...wonder where this one will end up when you're finished?...:)

As I have said before, there are literally 100's of these little buggers out there worth capturing, PN's are definitely overlooked by too many imagers.

Mike

[Stevec35]

Thanks Mike. Hopefully it will end up a better image <g>. There are some galaxies there so the end result should be quite a attractive field. I think the reason PNs are neglected is that most of them are small. I don't usually touch any smaller than about 40".

[Placidus]

Nice to see a stretch goal producing such lovely results.

[Stevec35]

Yes - I was flirting with clipping on this one. It was hard to mask the background defects any other way. Hopefully the next version won't have that problem.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Mike and Trish. I'm not really sure what a "stretch goal" is though.