Dumbell from a dumbell

[Hagar]

Tonight I thought I might take a couple of hours of Dumbell nebula. All was looking good and clear. Everything was working well. Started with 12 X 10 minute exposures and took a look at the clock. Sitting in the lounge looking around the forum and having a chat with AlexN on my chat room I thought time to check hw far I had gone through the imaging run. Checked my watch again , must be almost at the last image so I went out to take a look and start off some 15 min exposures but it was decidedly dark. Bloody cloud and lots of it. I checked each individual image and found I had six usable subs. So here it is one hour of Dumbell nebula.

Scope: Vixen VC200L at f9
Camera: QHY8 cooled CCD camera.
Active guiding on a Losmandy G11.

[Screwdriverone]

Damn,

Looks pretty good to me Doug,

Nice work! :thumbsup:

Chris

[Gama]

Looks good Doug, just be thankfull it didnt rain.

Theo.

[strongmanmike]

Bluddy cloud :mad2: :doh:...

Great shot none the less Doug so not all was lost.

Mike

[Lester]

Very nice image Doug.

[Hagar]

Thanks for the kind comments. In the end it didn't rain and at about 1.00am the sky had again cleared but was a bit late for me to go and setup again. Getting to old to setup twice in one night.

[peeb61]

Great shot Doug, colours, very sharp, focus.....I can just go on but I will stop because I'm turning green!

Paul

[sjastro]

Excellent image Doug.

Regards

Steven

[TrevorW]

Great shot Hagar the horrible !!!

[Kevnool]

Great image there Doug...well done...cheers Kev.

[multiweb]

That's a great picture Doug. Very sharp and I love the colors. You also nailed the tracking.Top shot. :thumbsup:

[RB]

Very nice shot regardless Doug.
You're lucky it didn't start raining.

:)

[winensky]

Nice one. Lovely and sharp with good detail for the dumbell with that much data. Do love that camera of yours!

[Hagar]

Thanks for the comments. I was quite amazed at the amount of details captured considering thee conditions on the night and will if possible add a lot more data to this image and hopefully reprocess to release more of the nebulas detail.

[Ric]

Very nice Doug, the inner detail of the nebula that you've captured looks great.

[gregbradley]

An excellent image of what is really a northern hemisphere object.

Greg.

[Craig_L]

Great shot Doug.