Howdy all
A few hours before getting my Helix Neb. shot I took some other images.
Eruptive nebula NGC 6164-65 3x10 mins ISO 400
An unusual surprisingly bright Planetary nebula Fg1 in Centarus, it isnt even on the NGC catalogue, another southern planetary overlooked by the "northerners" lol. 2x 10 mins ISO 200 (full resolution crop)
2 Planetaries for the price of one. On the lower left is MZ2,blue in colour, on the lower right is He 2-146 orange in colour, and in fact 1/2 way between MZ2 and the bright star at top is a 3rd planetary He 2-149 but its only 3 arc secs in size so looks like a star. A larger version of this image is here
http://scottalder.fotopic.net/p29773269.html Click full size button.
3x 10 mins ISO 400
all shots with UHCS and UV/IR filters and MPCC, 10 inch F5.6, modded 350D camera.
The FG1 shot only came about when I got a phone call from a fellow into visual work in Cessnock a few hours earlier, he rang to ask me about a planetary, and gave me co ords, and Fg1 was what Star Atlas pro software came up with. The DSS survery image lookd good so I thought its worth catching in colour. A nice little find and I suspect quite achievable visually.
Scott