Saturn Nebula NGC 7009

[spearo]

Hello
Here 's my first attempt at the Saturn Nebula.

Tiny little target.

My C14 needs some collimation I think.

Still I'm pleased I managed to get something out of it.

full frame (minor cosmetic cropping) and cropped version.

C14 at F/11 on G11 LRGB 90-30-30-30

thanks for looking
frank

EDIT added a few frames from near full Moon but only exposed 2 and 3 minutes as test shots and sure enough I'd burned the core before so i add a more detailled quick repro. I will reimage properly shortly under new Moon skies.
cheers frank

[Bassnut]

I like it, bright, low noise and some good detail.

[Lester]

Good image Frank, thanks for the view. Nothing but cloud for me to view and still more to come. All the best.

[strongmanmike]

Lovely work, love the blue colour and you have revealed some nice details.

Isn't there meant to be a central star?

Mike

[spearo]

Thanks guys
Mike Yes I think so but i think I initially blew it out then probably masked it too much by high pass filtering
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frank

[DavidU]

Very nice image, detail & colour. Try a Sidonio to recapture the central star.

[strongmanmike]

Phew! I thought for a moment Fred had a desciple :eyepop: :P

[Octane]

Hey mate,

Excellent! Such beautiful colouring in that planetary. Pity about the miscollimation. : (

I'm looking forward to what's to come -- are you saving the best 'til last? ; )

H

[troypiggo]

Beautiful. I haven't seen any of that target of that high quality.

[spearo]

Thanks All

I tried to have a go at it again but there is no helping the fact that the core is burned out

What I need is to re-shoot with shorter exposure and layer in the better core etc.
Maybe next week?
will see
Thanks for the feedback
much appreciated
frank

[Lester]

Hi Frank, I just had a look at NGC7009 on The Sky 6 and saw that there is another planetary PLN 37-34.1 only 38" from it, magnitude 8.3 and 0.4'x0.4' . So should be within the FOV on the cropped image. Strange that there is no sign of it.

Just did a google search and states that NGC 7009 and PLN 37-34.1 are the same object. Just goes to show some planetarium programs have a few mistakes within.:shrug:

Sorry Frank.

[desler]

Miscollimation aside, that is probably the brightest image of that PN I've seen. Very nice. Good luck with the shorter exposers in the coming week, look forward to seeing the results.

Darren

[renormalised]

Nice shot Frank....quite bright and a fair amount of detail too:)

[Alchemy]

Top effort, long FL imaging is a challenge, once you are over 1500 mm seeing kicks in noticeably, at 3911 mm that's way over that and seeing will play a big part. Well done I say.

Maybee you will get more next time, look forward to the results

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Impressive Frank. Terrific shot. :thumbsup:

[spearo]

Many thanks everyone for the kind encouraging words
I'll try to collect more and better data soon
cheers
frank

[Paul Haese]

Frank I like this image. If you collimation is out it is not noticable in this image. The stars a eveer so slightly misshapen and this could have occured for other reasons than collimation.

The colour and detail is very good.

[spearo]

Thanks Paul
frank

[leon]

Fantastic effort on such a distant object, well done indeed.

Leon

[spearo]

Thanks Leon
frank

[jase]

A C14/F11 on a G11. This is some hair raising work Frank! My had goes off to you. Impressive details, though as you suggest perhaps a little soft due to collimation (perhaps seeing?). Keep them coming.

[spearo]

Thanks Jase
I hesitated too many minutes about the Titan...kicking myself now...
frank

[spearo]

Hi All I've listened to the advice and while away for the past 10 days i decided to test whether I had indeed burned the core...which it seems as suspected that I had.

So i took a few test shots of 2 and 3 min exposure under near full Moon skies.

Nevertheless it revealed a bit more detail including the central star.

So i did a quick (very quick) repro including these test shots and include here

Thanks for the feedback

I will definitely re image this completely with shorter exposures next new Moon clouds permitting
Cheers
frank