[Astrod00d]

Hi All,

I've been trying to image the Tarantula for a long time, with the DSLR it was always green with more stars than nebulosity. Now, with the QHY8 we see a bit more Ha and a slightly redder spider.

There are so many stars in the field, the nebulosity gets lost a bit. Perhaps I need to capture some Ha data to emphasise the clouds a bit more. I've seen some excellent narrowband images on this forum and I'd like to give it a go myself sometime.

This image is a stack of 20x5min subs, QHY8 and 127mm APO, guided with a QHY5+ED80+PHD on an EQ6 EQMOD Ascom pulseguide. Levels, curves, unsharp mask PS CS3.

Cheers,

Rob