Cone Nebula and Leo Triplet

[DJ N]

Hi all,

First of all, thanks to Paul and Graeme for some great company on Saturday night at Pauls place. What a night. As Paul mentioned in his posts, the views of Mars and then Saturn in his C14 were the best I have ever seen!! Awesome:thumbsup:

In terms of deep sky, I managed to image a couple of targets over the course of the night. The seeing was fantastic, but the wind was quite breezy. Even so, it was great to be out under some real dark skies.

Anyhow, here is my first "draft" at processing some of the data.....

Cone Nebula and Fox Fur Nebula : 4x20 minutes images at (including darks, flats and bias) ED120 @f6 with QHY8L and William Optics III Flattener/Reducer

Leo Triplet : 4x20 minutes images (including darks, flats and bias) ED120 @f6 with QHY8L and William Optics III Flattener/Reducer


Thanks for looking

Cheers,

Daniel

[Ross G]

Great photos Daniel.

Nice detail and colours.


Ross.

[peter_4059]

Nice shot of the Cone Daniel.

[DJ N]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Cheers,

Daniel

[Rigel003]

Impressive images Danny, and nicely processed. I'd love to see bigger versions. The first is a lovely field, well framed. Probably the Leo galaxies would have fared better without the reducer. I haven't had time yet to process mine - watch this spot.

[cventer]

Nicely done. Both great images and well processed.

did you do 4 x 20 min images or 20 x 4 min images ?

[DJ N]

Thanks Graeme......... looking forward to seeing your Leo Triplet.

[DJ N]

yeah...... 4 subs at 20 minutes each........pretty happy with the EQ6!

[Paul Haese]

Lovely work Danny. I like the colour and the fields of view. Glad you had a good time, I really enjoyed the company, despite being locked inside my observatory to stop the wind. It was good seeing.

[allan gould]

Great images and I loved the field of view with your refractor

[TrevorW]

Do you have a link to a larger image

Cheers

[desler]

Yes Daniel, lovely images!

Darren