My best rosette with 6" newt

[Garyh]

Hi Folks,:)
Here is my latest effort of the lovely Rosette neb taken on last Saturday night.
Image is 12 x 10 min @ iso 400 with canon 300D and 6" newtonian.
My collimation got way out somehow? was good the night before...oh well! probably jarred the bugger while swapping scopes!:P Didn`t get much sleep then!

Image has been cropped to remove the worst of the coma in the corners but I am still happy with the results.
Autoguiding went quiet smooth for 10 min subs with very little flexure showing which are as long as I have done subs before.
Anyways all comments are most welcome....:thumbsup:
As well as color balance!!:)
cheers Gary

[theodog]

Seems a nice image to me.:)
Well framed, nice colour and some bok's, whats wrong with that?:thumbsup:
Collimation can be painfull, it only has to be out a smidge and it shows up.:sadeyes:
Good one.

[edwardsdj]

Incredible amount of detail there Gary. A fine image :)

[Alchemy]

Am i allowed to say... nice image.... cos it is. I like the texture of the nebula looks full of Ha light, nice density, All in all i like it, i havent done much beyond 6 min exposures, maybee it might help, could also be the number of exposures too (2 hrs). Oh and the colorbalance looks good too:)

[tornado33]

Yep I cannot fault it at all :)
get yourself a Baader MPCC coma corrector, they dont reduce coma, they eliminate it totally, you'd be able to show undropped images with stars to the edges as sharp as in the middle

[EzyStyles]

12 x 10 mins? geeessss nicee gaz very very nice. i dont think your coma is that bad. (coming from the F4 guy in the past)

[Garyh]

Thanks Jeff, have to pay more attention before I start a session!
cheers...:)



Thankyou Doug...:thumbsup: yeap happy with it except that the stars a a little wonky!



Glad you enjoyed the image Alchemy
Thanks for the kind comments...:thumbsup:



Thanks Scott, actually that is with the MPCC :sadeyes: After the images were done I looked down the focuser and could see things were not too good..:(...might have to buy myself a laser collimator !
thanks for that..:thumbsup:



Thanks Eric....:thumbsup: yeah I hate that coma stuff too!
thanks for those nice comments..:)
cheers Gary

[iceman]

Wow Gary, what a ripper. Thoroughly enjoyable to look at.

[Garyh]

Thanks Mike.. :thumbsup:

[Ric]

You done a nice job on this one Gary, there plenty of detail and those dark lanes look great against the red backdrop.

Cheers

[leon]

Gary that is very nice indeed, what a beautiful star field.

Leon

[Tamtarn]

Wow that's really up close and personal :)

A nice muted tone to the image but still retains very sharp detail. Terrific Gary.

[Peter Ward]

Gary!

All good. Excellent density, colour ;) tracking and focus. Looks like you might have used a smoothing filter in processing and that has taken a little of the snap out of the image, but it's often the case of dealers choice in how you control noise.

It would be great to see at a much larger image scale (1400 or so pixels)

A not so easy object very well captured :thumbsup:

[rumples riot]

That is a lovely image, certainly nice and sharp and one you should be very happy with.

[Garyh]

Thankyou everyone!..:thumbsup: I am happy with how it turned out, just wished I checked that collimation first!
I would love to have another go if the clouds decide to part again!
thankyou and CS hopefully soon :)
Gary