Bug Nebula (NGC6302)

[Striker (Tony)]

After seeing Scotts nice image of the little bug Nebula I had my oportunity to image this before the clouds come over.

10 x 7 minute autoguided images ISO800 with Modded canon 350D

Imaged from my house Brisbane at F10 2500mm focal length on the 10" LX200R SCT.

LPR filter used.

Proccessed as usual in Imagesplus and photoshopCS2.

It's a huge improvement over my last years result.

Thanks to Scott for reminding me about this target.

Hope you like.
Warning 1.5mb full res just compressed to Jpeg
http://www.users.on.net/~striker/Bug-full-rez.jpg

Low Rez image as attached.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

gosh it took its time to load but that is one very fine image of the bug

you have got be pleased with that result

[Dennis]

Very nice Tony.

Cheers

Dennis

[astro_south (Andrew)]

nice work Tony

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

great stuff Tony. Plenty of red photon's in the bug.

[Lester]

Nice capture Tony.

[tornado33]

Great pic, small objects like that lend themselves well for imaging at F10. A large image scale there from the long focal length. As a comparison heres a full res. crop from my telescope. 3x5 mins ISO 1600.
Would be interested to see how your scope goes on things like Omega Centauri too.
Scott