Witchhead nebula

prokyon (Werner Probst) · #1 09-01-2009, 05:56 AM

Hi,

last week I took a pic of the witch, IC 2118.
It`s a difficult object, because the distance to the horizon is small.

I used the Canon 350d mod. and the Canon EF 200. 6x600s with ISO 800:

http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilde...el_31Dez08.jpg

It was so damned cold, 3.2 F !!! (manual tracking control

)

cheers

werner

h0ughy (David) · #2 09-01-2009, 08:26 AM

Werner the cold did you a favour by helping to reduce the noise. nice image

renormalised (Carl) · #3 09-01-2009, 09:57 AM

Nice shot!!!....the cold has served you well. Hardly any noise in that shot.

Oh...BTW, have you managed to chip your eyepiece away from your eye

atalas · #4 09-01-2009, 04:53 PM

Great effort !

dugnsuz (Doug) · #5 09-01-2009, 09:37 PM

Hexenkopfnebel - very nice Wener
Doug

leon · #6 10-01-2009, 01:36 PM

Certainly a great effort, this one is a bugger of an object at the best of times, you seem to have captured it very well.

Leon

prokyon (Werner Probst) · #7 10-01-2009, 02:03 PM

Hi,

thanks for your comments.
This object is one of my favorites. It looks so spooky. So I tried everything to catch it.
And now I will try to make a pic with the Pentax75.

cheers

werner

Craig_L · #8 10-01-2009, 02:14 PM

The widefield is great - and not many subs. Looking forward to see what you do with the Pentax Werner.

spearo (Frank) · #9 14-01-2009, 06:02 PM

Just saw this one
Very nice
super crisp stars
well done
frank