somebody got it wrong upstairs because we actually had a Saturday night close to new moon -and no cloud or rain!!
anyway here's my results from last night
unfortunately not the greatest image-target too poorly framed and therefore right in the zone where coma is most apparent
I got excited by seeing all the extended nebulosity and didnt check for coma at full res-well hopefully that's a lesson learnt
ED80
QHY8
Baader 7 nm H alpha Filter
William Optics 0.8 Focal reducer
CG5 autoguided PHD
Nebulosity capture and preprocessing
8 x 15 minute subs-2 hours total exposure
all I can say is that I was really tired after Friday night's imaging session-yet to process that data, and hopefully thats better quality- and just wasn't careful enough framing the image.good ol' operator error
anyway enough excuses, here it is
larger image-should you care to look at- is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9178472...99125/sizes/o/
Narayan