Thors Helmet NGC 2359

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I started on this 2 nights ago. Capturing as much data as possible before Moon rise.
I'm up to 3 hours of 5 minute subs @ ISO 400
CDS1100D ED80 HEQ5Pro DSS CS3

I probably should be going for this one with the RC8 but I'm too lazy to change scopes at that time of night.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Nice one jjj!

You squeezed out some nice colour in the nebula.

Did you find the modded 1100D helped on this one?

Cheers,

Justin.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Having a cooled camera certainly helped.
I've tried this one with the 550D, only to have to toss many hours of data because of thermal noise.

[Zubenel (Wes)]

Nice Shot JJJ. I'll remember never to use the 550 for this one

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice one, JJJ!

[leon]

Top effort Jeanette, one of my favorite deep sky objects.

Leon

[allan gould]

It's a hard beast to capture well but you are almost there. It's so faint that it will need LONG subs rather than a lot of short ones. 10x5 min subs still gives a 5 min image whereas 5 x10 min subs will give you a 10 min image that will allow you to pull out fainter details than the 5 min subs.
Still it's a good image, JJJ

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I'll take that on board Allan, thanks.
It's cloudy tonight, here's hoping tomorrow evening it will clear up.