It's been 6 weeks since my last image and since then my lappie died on me, so last night I finally made it out to image again
I have been wanting to do a nice framing of the entire sword in natural colours for a while now so here it is
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These summer nights are pretty short (especially on work nights
) so this is an LHaRGB combine = 90 60 30 30 30min with the ProLine11002 and 6" F7.5 Starfire APO.
There's a nice reflection around the brightest star at the bottom but I have left it in because I actually kind of like it, I think it looks rather dramatic optical...?
60% size image (2.3meg)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...72164/original
Here's a very small image so those on dial-up can look first to decide wether they want to open the larger one above
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...20372164/large
Here are close ups of:
The main nebula
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...73542/original
The running man:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...73394/original
Mike