Rosette Nebula

[Carl]

Getting towards the end of Rosette season but finally completed due to ordinary weather. Shot on and off over January and Feb.

Original 109mb, reduced for ISS uploading specs.

Optics: Skywatcher 120ed Black Diamond Refractor
Guiding: Orion Starshoot with modified 9x50 finderscope (PHD guiding)
Focuser: High Resolution Moonlight 2” Crayford
Camera: Canon 500d modified DSLR (focus & capture Nebulosity3)
Filters: Astronomiks UV/IR Asronomiks 12nm H-alpha
Exposures: 59x5min@1600iso UV/IR combined with
25x10min@1600iso H-alpha. Plus corrisponding darks.
Processing: Nebulosity3
Post processing: Photoshop CS5

Other images at 500px.com/crainer2

regards
Carl

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nicely done. Great details around the rim and in the core. That scope is a keeper. Beaute field.

[Ross G]

Nice detail Carl.

Ross.