Being the long weekend I had all my fingers crossed that I would be able to get out and do some imaging. I had prior engagements on Friday and Saturday nights so last night I was determined to get out. Again the full moon was around so I chose to do the chicken in hubble colours. I was set up ready to go a little early for it to rise over my house so I took one 15 minute sub of the vela snr, unfortunately 15 minute subs show signs of flexture. I am convinced that for these hubble images you want to stick to under 20 subs so that diminishing returns doesn't make imaging time next to meaningless. Obviously to get mammoth integration times you need long subs though. For now I will have to live with 10 minute subs, but later in the year I have plans for a different guiding solution. From CCD inspector my hydrogen alpha subs range from 4.1 to 4.5 FWHM, and the lowest being a O3 sub at a staggering 3.66 (im imaging at 1.49 arc seconds per pixel).
I hope you like the image it is a mere 20 minutes of s2 and o3 and 130 minutes of HA.
HA larger
http://www.astrobin.com/full/31005/?mod=none
Colour larger
http://www.astrobin.com/full/31006/?mod=none