IC 5150 Planetary Nebula

[rogerg]

G'day all,

I spent tonight imaging the planetary nebula IC 5150. I've ended up with arelatively nice image.

Need to work out how to calebrate my RGB - I'm guessing I need to find a star that's "white" and take shots of it with each filter.

See image and details here (http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/esh_rog_item.jsp?Item=652).

The first 4 luminance images were spectacular clarity, then the wind picked up and stayed gusty for the remainder of the night. So quality has suffered as a result, and I lost many shots due to the wind also.

Oh, and I checked out this object in my friend's 15" Obsession tonight also, good to compare and contrast. Couldn't see the central star at all, but the donut shape was clearly visible.

It was a fun night :thumbsup:

Roger.

[Garyh]

Nice Roger! Havn`t seen a image of this PN before so its hard to compare what the colors should be but I think it is a very nice image!
Glad you had a fun night!! :)
cheers

[RB]

Looks very nice Roger, sounds like it's quite a faint PN to image.

You've done well, I like the blue central star.

:thumbsup:

[Ric]

Great looking PN Roger.

A very nice image.

[Dr Nick]

Nice, it looks a little dark but its a great image! ;)

[rogerg]

Thanks all :)

Nick - yeah, it's always a debate how much to push the brightness (introducing more noise) or leave it darker. Looking at it on my laptop now it looks quite a bit darker than on my observatory PC's screen (where I processed it last night), so perhaps I should've taken it up a notch :)

Roger.