ngc 2659 Vela

[casstony]

NGC 2659 is the central cluster in the image; it's in the middle of the Vela SNR and some green wispy's show up if you look close.

Second image is the Pencil ngc 2736 on the edge of the SNR.

[raymo]

Very nice again; your Nikon picks up more Ha than my Canon.
raymo

[xelasnave]

You are doing some real nice work Tony. Great effort.
Alex

[Paulyman]

Those look great. If this weather holds I might have a go at this area tonight, now I know a DSLR will pick up something.

[casstony]

It's fun trying a new area; I haven't previously paid any attention to Vela. I like the various brighter star colours spread through the busy starfield.

These were a couple of hours of 5 minute exposures at f/4.8 and I pushed the saturation in PS.

[casstony]

My previous camera was a 600D and the Nikon looks a little more sensitive, but the big advantage is that the Nikon has far less noise.