Part of the Vela SNR

[tornado33]

Tweaked the polar alingment to the point no detectable drift in either altitude or azimuth tests for 2 mins, then went for the Vela SNR. Sadly clouds ended proceedings after about 70 mins of data, a pity too, as Id even done a meridian flip 1/2 way through. That was surprisingly easy, I rotated the off axis guider/camera assembly 180 deg as well, and simply picked up the same guidestar as before, pics were only slightly misaligned from previous ones (probably some tube flexure), Id love to do about 4 hours worth to give it real justice, it is rather faint.

7x10minsiso400, Idas uv/ir, Baader UHCS filters, Baader MPCC coma corrector. moded 350D .10 inch f5.6 newtonian, off axis guided.
Scott

[jase (Jason)]

Great image Scott. Really enjoy looking at the tendrils of nebulosity twisting together. How about a mosaic of this region? Nothing like a little challenging project.

[glenc (Glen)]

Lots of sharp detail in that Scott, what star is it?

[Garyh]

Very nice! love all that detail in the neb. Like a spiders web!
cheers Gary

[theodog (Jeff)]

Lovely image Scott, beautiful colours. Seems a little grainy to my eyes but I'm sure a better s/n would fix that.
Very well done though.

[avandonk]

That is a very faint bit of nebulousity! I am surprised you could even get it to show.

Amazing!

Bert

[leon]

Wow, that is some impressive image, great job.

Leon

[skeltz (Rob)]

Lovely image scott,are you permanently setup,if so go for at least 5 to 10 minutes polar alignment...cheers

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

one of your best of this target as far as I can recall..just a tad noisy it appears IMHO... maybe some light noise reduction?