Hi all, following some discussion on a few other threads regarding the Monthly Imaging Challenge I've decided to get the ball rolling again.
The idea of the challenge is to image the nominated DSO and post it into this thread, that way we can all learn from each other.
At the end of the month I'll nominate one of the imagers to select a target for the April Imaging Challenge. They will then select someone for the May challenge and so on.
For this months challenge I've nominated
NGC 3242 The Ghost of Jupiter.
A quite remarkable Planetary Nebula in Hydra at magnitude 9.0
It is currently situated in the Eastern sky and is a good mid to late evening target.
My image was taken with the LX200R 12" in Alt/Az using a DSI II Pro with IR and Narrowband filters at f/5.0
The image was captured with Envisage 7.05 set to Drizzle mode with darks applied. Exposure times were as follows
Lum 50 x 15 second subs
Ha, OIII & SII were all 50 x 21.2 second subs
They were then combined and processed with MaximDL.
Thanks for looking and I hope everyone can find some time to join in.
Cheers
