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Originally Posted by KenGee
Top image Mike, you are are one of the Bar setters on this site. Will give it ago.
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You think? well I guess that's a compliment?
Yeh go for it it is a beautiful nebula, I recon 600mm FL (or a two frame mozaic at 1200mm) and a few hours on this would churn out a pretty nice image
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Originally Posted by Craig_L
Gee this is a hard one to image. Inspired by Mike's shot, I tried to shoot this last night with the Modded Canon DSLR @ 7minsISO1600 thru the Hutech LPS V3 filter and barely registered the nebula at all. Maybe I need a dark sky and LRGB filters. I'll have to be content with easier targets.
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Glad you had a go Craig, I think the dark skies really do help here as does having a reasonably sensitive mono CCD, and remember, although rather short for LRGB imaging I still did 4hrs worth of exposure.
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very nice image. Pleasing neutral sky background with a very natural blue colouring in the nebula with the faintest hint of pinks (probably from very faint Ha emissions).
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Thanks master Scotty
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Actually bad seeing doesnt seem to have caused much problem as the faint stars are still pretty small, barely a pixel across. Perhaps it might bloat the brighter stars but if it has its ceriainly not by much. A refracter on a stable mount will be better suited to iffy seeing than a big reflector anyway. I reckon transparency is the thing to get the best from the Witch head neb. and I imagine thats always quite good that far from populated areas.
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Man, if you had been there you would have thought me completely mad for imaging
..err? you probably already do but for other reasons
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
what a pretty lady - nice - very nice Mr Sidonio
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Yes pretty colours for a Witch huh?
