Hi Folks.
Last night seeing that it was cold clear and great seeing, I thought I would tackle a faint and distant object, The Pencil Nebula, in Vela.
However I was a little disappointed with the result, and expect that it is either just to faint for a 4 inch refractor, or I have to go even longer with the subs.
I would be pleased with some advice on my efforts, please.
This image consisted of 17 exposures @ 6 minutes each at 500 ISO, giving a total of 102 minutes on the object, with the Tak on the G11, auto guided, and Canon 5D, with ICRN on, and Master flat applied.
Conditions were good, the guiding was pretty well spot on, but I expected more in the final image, Should i have gone longer with the subs, do you think.
Please could those more experienced people advise me on, either the processing, or the sub lengths, or both.
Anyway here are two images, one is a full frame wide field of the area and one is a half size crop, both processed in Image Plus and CS2.
And could some one please tell me what that red object is in the bottom left of the wide field.
Leon
