M78

[whzzz28 (Nathan)]

Second image from my week at Ballandean.
There is some light halo's in the top right... I do not know where they have come from. It is not visible in the luminance data, only RGB. It is visible in all color frames, regardless of where the telescope is pointing (RGB was taken over the course of the night, the scope swung from E->W).
It looks like someone with a torch, but there was no man-made light within at least 1km of the scope... I really don't know what it is. Moon wasn't up either.

Anyway, somewhat pleased with the results. Needed more color data though.
Also i have come to the realisation that my ED80 is rather soft. An FSQ106 certainly is tempting right now.

ED80, HEQ5 with mini-guider and Hotech FF.
LRGB: 160x40x40x40 (mins)

100% version: http://www.core-au.net/astro/Collection/M78/100.jpg

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Nice, Nathan!

[allan gould]

Looks a bit like a light leak Nathan, but nevertheless a good image.
We all need more data - but it's so hard to get with all the smoke and cloud ATM.

[RickS (Rick)]

Looks pretty good, Nathan.

[naskies (Dave)]

Looks great, Nathan.

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Nathan of a dim object.

Ross.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

That's fantastic Nathan,

Really, really good. So diverse and pretty to look at, its superb.

Cheers

Chris