Overlooked but beautiful planetary in Hydra

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Cheers for having a look guys

Originally Posted by Andy01

Lovely image of a rare target, well done

Would you mind please telling me (and all of us) how/where do you go to research and seek out these rare and exotic targets?

Cheers

Andy

Nothing systematic or anything Andy, just a long time in the game, wide interest, internet browsing and surfing my planetarium software star charts from time to time

Originally Posted by Atmos

I have a feeling that a lot of this comes down to the fact that they don't dedicate anywhere near the same amount of exposure time onto each individual target. I mean, Mike put like 13 hours into that image, ESO cannot afford to dedicate that amount of observation time onto a single target such as this.

Actually there was less than 4hrs of exposure in this one Colin

[Atmos (Colin)]

My bad, here I am underselling your equipment! Assumed you spent the night on this one, 5pm-6am

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice one Mike, I love a good PN too bad they are mostly tiny.
i'm with you on enjoying the skies on the dob while the imaging rig chugs away.

Cheers

[bkm2304 (Richard Brown)]

Mike,

Does she have a "common" name? If not, how about, The Blueberry Nebula. It looks just like the ones that I had on my breakfast this morning!

Richard

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by bkm2304

Mike,

Does she have a "common" name? If not, how about, The Blueberry Nebula. It looks just like the ones that I had on my breakfast this morning!

Richard

The Southern Owl ...but I think "Breast Implant" was suggested...

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Duh! I supposed to have already commented this one but apparently not!

Great target Mike and excellent rendition, when (when?) I will be able to get a larger scope this will definitely be in my to do list.. inspiring!

Cheers
Marco

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by marco

Duh! I supposed to have already commented this one but apparently not!

Great target Mike and excellent rendition, when (when?) I will be able to get a larger scope this will definitely be in my to do list.. inspiring!

Cheers
Marco

Anything in mind..? I' thinking you should go straight to the top and join the Chart32 team

Mike