A mediocre M78

[billdan]

After Andy posted that incredible image of M78, I thought i would post my mediocre version taken last month.

[Windston]

Nice shot! There is a bit of noise there, but the detail is pretty bloody amazing!

[billdan]

Thanks Dan, regarding the noise, I needed another 10 hours of integration time. 4 hours is just not enough with a low QE camera like the QHY12.
Always next year.

Cheers

[SimmoW]

Mediocre is a very strong word, ESP when comparing to multi million dollar research telescopes! Yes it's a bit noisy but some lovely detail in it.

[traveller]

It's a very nice image with nice colours.
Getting the best out of your equipment is the goal of AP, not getting the best equipment ;)
Bo

[Andy01]

Darn right, you should be well pleased with that outcome, and I can assure you it's far better than any M78 that I've captured!

I posted Robert's pic to show what's there, when captured with state of the art, moneys' no object research grade gear, and admittedly - it's incredible.

Equally incredible imo, is to get a fine result like yours, with far more modest gear, from one's own backyard. Well done :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Yeah modest maybe Bill but still an image... and an image is an image :thumbsup:

One day I'll give M78 a crack myself :)

Mike

[Paul Haese]

Bill this object is very faint and I can say I invested a lot of time on this object about 4-5 years ago prior to automation and I really still feel I needed a lot more data. Imaging this object can be a beast, satisfaction is really of your own making. Keep at it. We don't have all we want in astronomy, if we did we would all be producing awesome images from gear in perfect seeing. It would get the same real quick. Keep getting out there and collecting data.

[RickS]

Not at all mediocre, Bill. Well done!

[JA]

Very nice image Bill :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[billdan]

Thanks for the encouragement fellas, I was being silly when I wrote mediocre.
I should have wrote modest.

[willik]

I took that image M78 did not turn out very well but that is a nice shot
well done.
Martin