This image is the result of several trips to my dark site. It seemed doomed at times. Its been a different weather pattern for some time now where the cloud is on the western side of the Great Dividing Range so Sydney can be clear yet my site is cloudy. For several years it was the reverse.
I would try to image it through a gap in poor weather when I couldn't image my main imaging target for that night.
So a few times I would get through maybe luminance or even as far as through to the green shot when clouds would roll in and wreck or prevent the blue. So it became - next time I am down here I will have another go at it.
So here it is. Taken under relatively poor conditions with a 2/3rds moon and low in the sky, so not ideal. It turned out reasonably well anyway although I will be reshooting it under better conditions (I am ever hopeful of good weather at my dark site).
TEC180 fluorite, Apogee U16M camera, Baader filters, Tak NJP mount.
Sbig ST402ME guide camera. LRGB 10 10 10 10.
CCDstack, Gradient Xterminator, Photoshop CS2.
http://www.pbase.com/image/115746072
Greg.