A real faint fuzzy one

[tornado33]

Howdy
Decided to try something real obscure, so while looking through the wealth of planetary nebulas on http://www.blackskies.com/
I settled on a 16.5 mag. one called He 2- 82. Its 24 arc secs. in size.
2 x 10 min at ISO 400 with my 10 inch scope http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp/He%202-%2082.jpg

[h0ughy (David)]

scott
you're doing it again. how did you find this one!!!

excellent shot

[atalas]

Sneaky bugger hiding away,good work Scott.


Louie

[ving (David)]

yeah i saw that yesterday during the day its so bright....

gawd! so faint. I doubt I could se that even with the darkest skies!

[iceman (Mike)]

16.5mag with an 8"? Don't even bother trying David

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

That's a very dense star field!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice one Scott.

It's one of the things I really like about this site, we get to see the results of people who are willing to push the envelope in areas you are not supposed to achieve in. That's brilliant. Sure it may not look brilliant and sparkly and sharp as a tack like an M57 or Ghost of Jupiter, but many of them don't, and the fact that you're prepared to go out and chase them down is a real credit to you enthusiasm and dedication to the artform.

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Sure it may not look brilliant and sparkly and sharp as a tack like an M57 or Ghost of Jupiter,

doesnt sound like a description of my ghost of jupiter

[tornado33]

Many thanks. I do like finding this faint stuff, just to see what it looks like. This one was indeed so faint it wasnt visible even on the individual pics taken using the camera viewscreen, I had to wait till Id put the images on the PC and processed them to even verify I was on the right starfield hehehehe.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's amazing. Once you get to those sort of magnitudes and really pushing the envelope, it's a whole new world out there - again!

You'd be great at shooting faint comets.