He2-82 and bright star in Crux

[tornado33]

Hi all
Wind was still there but not as strong as today so set up the 10 inch scope despite the jetstream being bad over the hunter valley. I was presently surprised to get the image quality I did get, I was expecting a bit worse. Some wind buffeting but not too bad.
Its a mag 16 planetary neb in Crux, so nice and south, making it an easy target for me.
6x10 mins ISO 400, LPS filter. Baader MPCC coma corrector. Modded 350D, hand guided with Q guider cam in off axis guider. I had great fortune with a very bright guide star in good position.

Larger image here

CCD users will definately need an anti blooming gate to image this area

Wind buffeting depended on the scopes position, after this object I went for the Lagoon, but buffeting made accurate guiding impossible, yet this object could be imaged okay.
This planetary would be another good challenge for visual observers.
Scott

[Craig.a.c (Craig)]

Love the spikes coming off the star.

[theodog (Jeff)]

Yep, sure is a little bugger.
Well done Scott.

[glenc (Glen)]

A great image Scott, but too faint for a visual with my 12".
For those with big scopes it is 22' from eps Cru in pa60 and the PN is mag 15.3 and 24" in diam.

[venus (Lydia)]

Great image Scott. Yes was very windy last night. I went to the Newcastle Foreshore at Nobbys to a viewing, George Livanos set up the NAS telescope and we saw the new moon just a sliver after sunset but was amazing he has a very keen eye to spot the moon which was virtually invisible. Then we viewed Venus, Mars and Saturn also Jupiter with 4 of it's moons and globular cluster Alpha Centauri.
Was well worth braving the cold night air

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

nice find Scott

[gregbradley]

A very aesthetic image.

Greg.

[tornado33]

Thanks all. When I first moved the scope to this object and took a short test image I noted the bright star and thought it might make a nice asthetic addition to the image
Scott

[Ric]

A fine image Scott, it sure looks a tricky little beggar.