Ant Nebula Menzel 3

[tornado33]

Here's a full resolution crop of the Ant Nebula (Menzel3) in Norma.
4x5mins ISO400 uv/ir filter, modded 350D, MPCC coma corrector, hand guided off axis. 10 inch f5.6 newtonian.
Seeing seemed to deteriorate as the imaging went on as the guidestar started out with only slight jittering then seemed to jump around quite a bit later on.
The nebula is 25 arc seconds in size.
Scott

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

well captured scott. i was about to give this ago tonight but strong winds prevented me from doing so. Is this also the bug nebula?

[iceman (Mike)]

That's amazing, Scott.. a bit more resolution and it'll look almost like the hubble image.
Well done.

[Garyh]

Wow...Thats a real testamony to your guiding ability Scott.
Well done!

[tornado33]

Thanks all
No the Bug is somewhat bigger and brighter, in the tail of scorpious

I had the strongly comatic guidestar along one of the reticle lines, so it was easy to see a thin white line behine the red line of the reticle, so even a slight amount of movement in RA could be observed and guided out.
Scott

[h0ughy (David)]

Hey Scott, I was looking at this and musingto myself the theme of the Pink Panther, mumbling dead ant , dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, deadant......you know how that goes. Wonderful shot mate! Last night I noticed that there were heaps of particles in the atmosphere, and the resultant glow of the lights of the city virtually made the sky disappear.

It is indeed very pleasing result. And I wonder what would look like added in to old data?

[Ric]

Nice capture Scott, it looks like it quite a faint nebula.

Cheers

[Pierre]

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Thanks for sharing

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

nice, it looks a little out of focus to me but still a great pic!