Witches Head Wide Field

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Captured a lovely 6 hours of subs, unfortunately clouds claimed 5 hours so here I've really punished the data.

Is it still ok? Sorry it's low res, I did some major binning to help the noise situation

So yeah this is 12x 5 minute subs with the old Canon 350D and 85mm lens at F5.

Will have to do this area properly sometime.

Cheers
Jo

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

After all your excuses I expected a poor result but this is lovely. Nice to see it in context in the wide field and to see those similar wispy structures dotted around the field. The witch head itself is well defined and there's good differentiation of star colours throughout. hWell done.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Looks good to me! Well done Jo you've brought the faint stuff out nicely

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I'd be happy with that. I haven't even been bothered to try for it. I think there's too much LP here.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by Rigel003

After all your excuses I expected a poor result but this is lovely. Nice to see it in context in the wide field and to see those similar wispy structures dotted around the field. The witch head itself is well defined and there's good differentiation of star colours throughout. hWell done.

Thanks you very much Graeme! I really appreciate your comments.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Looks good to me! Well done Jo you've brought the faint stuff out nicely

Thanks Dunk, I have been experimenting with StarTools and found a neat way of editing the background and stars separately, really helps when digging out the faint stuff.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

I'd be happy with that. I haven't even been bothered to try for it. I think there's too much LP here.

Yeah I reckon it needs pretty decent skies, sky glow overwhelms it really easily. I couldn't see it in my subs and only just slightly in the stacked image and that's with my mag 6.5+ skies.

I just finished working on a little cooler for my 350d that gives a nice -20 drop and as fitting it to the camera must have done something to it because now my camera is dead.
Have no idea what I did, and I have had that camera apart millions of times.

Cheers
Jo

[Tom_88 (Thomas)]

That's really nice Jo!

Yes it's quiet unusual that the clouds seem to suddenly cover they sky once you take the lens cap off and start taking pics haha nice pic anyway

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice wide view of it, Jo. Nothing to be ashamed of!

[Rex]

Really nice Jo, great FOV and nice detail.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by Tom_88

That's really nice Jo!

Yes it's quiet unusual that the clouds seem to suddenly cover they sky once you take the lens cap off and start taking pics haha nice pic anyway

Thanks Tom,

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice wide view of it, Jo. Nothing to be ashamed of!

Thanks Rick, glad you thought it was alright

Originally Posted by Rex

Really nice Jo, great FOV and nice detail.

Thank you Rex.

Cheers
Jo

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Being a bit data deprived, I did a repro of and if anyone is interested the larger version is Here.

Cheers
Jo

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

well done, that looks a real faint target. good wide field too