I have a couple of image acquisitions on the go, hopefully finish them eventually
but last Saturday it was
lots of high cloud (it stayed like this all through the night) and in the afternoon I thought it would be a lost night...but meah, it didn't get much worse than that photo after dark, so I decided to hit something relatively bright, so it might have a chance of revealing something through all the high crud, so... Gabby got the nod
Due to the inability to actually see the high cloud at such a dark location and in terms of stars and Milky Way visibility, it was a strange night of looking up at what appeared to be a pretty clear night sky but it wasn't, simulating a variable Bortle level, ranging from about Bortle 3 to 5 throughout the night, was really weird....
in the end, I managed to put something respectable together
Anyway, apart from a short period around midnight, when for about an hour it dipped below 2", the seeing was not the usual steady sub 2" I have enjoyed regularly up at Eagleview to date, instead ranging from 1.9" to 2.4" across the 6hrs, so still a tad better than my previous observatory site but more mortal levels
and I used every single 5min sub frame collected.
Also, all acquisition details are under the image but...no steroids (ie. BlurEx et al) were used in the processing of this image
I couldn't decide on my favourite orientation and crop...so here are two:
Gabriella Mistral - favourite crop (click on image and scroll around with your cursor)
Gabriella Mistral, her profile - full frame (click on image and scroll around with your cursor)
For those who don't know where the name of this nebula comes from, seems it reminded someone long ago of the head profile of the famous Chilean poet named Gabriella Mistral and I recon its a pretty good match
Mike