M1 - The Crab and dust around it.

[Emanuele]

Hello everyone,

last night I was out at our dark sky site with my imaging buddies! Beautiful skies, but at around 11.30pm a fog was over us and I was dewed up so I had to stop imaging.

M1 is rather small for my focal length, but I thought I would give it a try and try longer exposures for the first time.

13 x 10 min subs.
Pentax 125 SDP
SXVF-M25C
Em200
Maxim DL

I have never seen any images that show dust around the Crab ... so Tom Davis, this one's for you! :thumbsup:

Bigger picture: (2000 px - 8.3Mb)
http://www.backyardskies.com/BackyardSkies/M1_Information.html

Smaller preview (which looks really bad):

[Tom Davis]

Nicely done!!

Tom

[gregbradley]

Nice shot. Your Pentax 125 is showing its strength eh?

Greg.

[Emanuele]

Tom and Greg,
thank you!

The 125 SDP is one amazing scope! Believe it or not, I did not ran the focusing routine this time around. I just racked out the focuser until it reads 61.6 and that's it!
:)

It behaves as a much bigger scope actually!

[pgc hunter]

nice! Is it me, or is the whole scene bathed in a very faint nebulosity?

[renormalised]

Great piccie....too much dust, needs a vacuum:P:P:D:D

[strongmanmike]

That's very cool Emanuele, no can't recal seeing that either? Probably because rarely is the crab snapped at such wide FOV?

There is faint galactic dust all over the sky really and modern imaging and processing techniques are able to pick it up now more and more easily.

Mike

[Emanuele]

PGC Hunter: yes, there's a faint nebulosity, but I think is more like dust, rather then a molecular cloud.

Renormalized: call me strange, but I love dust ;) This type of dust anyway!

Mike: Yes, I think everyone focuses on the crab itself! I thought I would try this FOV to give it a different perspective from the usual! I'm pretty happy though as veins can be seen on the Crab so, that's a plus!

I'm resolute to image more dust! :D