First image in 6 months!!

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Christmas lights, a crappy cloudy summer and a PS4 with Star Wars Battlefront from Santa equals no imaging, for ages!! I cant believe it had been such a long time.

Here's the Running Chicken nebula from this past new Moon. I wished I had rotated the camera 90° but I had already a night worth of data in this orientation so I just stuck with it. I cropped a small section off the left edge as it just contained stars making the image look unbalanced.

Imaged with the C11 Edge HD with .7x focal reducer (1960mm FL) F7.
Mount - CGEM DX
Canon 60Da @ ISO 800

Integration - 94 x 4 minute subs, 6.26 hours in total.

Calibrated with darks and flats, processed in Pixinsight.

Large click here

Thanks for looking

Cheers

Rod

[Atmos (Colin)]

Looking good! Particularly like the Bok Globules

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice work Rod, and nice to see this in RGB for a change too

it has come out nicely indeed!

Russ

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Very nice Rod. I agree with Colin about those globules in particular - they are great!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice star colors. Not many RGB close ups on this one. The BOK do stand out.

[RickS (Rick)]

Yep, very nice Rod!

[gregbradley]

That looks great Rod.

Greg.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Looking good! Particularly like the Bok Globules

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Very nice Rod. I agree with Colin about those globules in particular - they are great!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Nice star colors. Not many RGB close ups on this one. The BOK do stand out.

Yeah, Thanks Marc, Colin and Pete! I was interested in how the Globules would come out.

Originally Posted by RickS

Yep, very nice Rod!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That looks great Rod.

Greg.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

nice work Rod, and nice to see this in RGB for a change too

it has come out nicely indeed!

Russ

Thanks Rick, Greg and Russ!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Welcome back Rod, must feel nice to get another image? computer games over imaging huh?...did you finish the game?

Mike

[topheart]

Good one!
Welcome back!
Tim

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Welcome back Rod, must feel nice to get another image? computer games over imaging huh?...did you finish the game?

Mike

Thanks Mike! Yeah it's good to be imaging again, gonna have a crack at Mars at opposition tomorrow night although I'm not much of a planetary photographer.

I did reach "Max rank" on Battlefront but it's sooooo addictive. I guess I'll just have to keep one eye on PHD2 and the other on the PS4.

Originally Posted by topheart

Good one!
Welcome back!
Tim

Thanks Tim!

[Ross G]

Hi Rod.

I know your pain..I have managed just solitary imaging nights since July 2014!

Great looking photo...love the colours.

Where did you image from?

Ross.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Thanks Ross!

I took this one from home (Parklea). It's actually the longest total integration time I've achieved, over 6 hours. Also some of the best guiding I've had. I lost a lot of subs to high cirrus clouds but the 6+ hours seemed to be enough.