It's been a long while since my last posting. Weather and equipment--when one was good the other was bad. Lodestar back to Starlight Xpress for repair. That came back, then the FLI camera played up. Fortunately it was still under warranty, so Bintel coughed up for the postage back to the States. Very good of them.
Anyway, I got this one in fits and starts over Jan and Feb. Lots more data than the three hours I ended up putting in the final result, but the seeing was often quite mediocre and I had to cull ruthlessly. I found this one really hard to process. It's actually a
very faint object, especially in the blue channel.
Low res here
http://www.astrobin.com/239225/0/
and higher res here
http://www.astrobin.com/full/239225/0/.
Lots of interesting fuzzies lurking through the pic and a nice little star cluster that looks like an artifact in the smaller version, just above the elliptical fuzzy on the lower right.
Details:
Exposure: 3 hours at 18 x 10 min LRGB, all binned 1 x 1
Camera: FLI Proline 16803
Mount: AP900
Telescope: 12.5" Plane Wave CDK
FOV: 35' x 27' (cropped)
Processing: PixInsight.