A real faint fuzzy, HDW5

[tornado33]

Tried for this faint planetary HDW5.
Star Atlas pro gives its magnitude as 14.5 H Beta, size 94 arc seconds, in Monoceros.
[IMG]http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7853&st c=1
Sky was poor with haze, smoke and darn near 100% humidity, scope was saturated and just after finishing up all this low cloud began forming. Temperature was warm, like a sauna it felt like. A makeshift cardboard and foam 1 foot dewcap stops any water getting onto the secondary mirror.
There is also a galaxy called PGC018942 superimposed behind the planetary, pretty much invisible here.
Scott

[tornado33]

I forgot to mention that it is 2 x 10 mins ISO 1600 with the 10 inch scope, UHCS and MPCC, in poor skies, just last night, where the humidity was terrible

[geckooptical]

Hello Scott,

Where in Monoceros DEC and RA?

Michael

[ving (David)]

gawd scott, I'd have packed up!!!

thanks for the pic

[PhotonCollector (Paul)]

Geeday tornado33,

Gee that's a faint one!

I can see it has colour too - red and there appears to be an even fainter reddish glow just to the right of centre.

Paul

[davidpretorius]

yup saw this with the naked eye the other night (new years eve) in good old tyranosaurus.


thanks for bringing to the other guys attention.


top image, well done

[tornado33]

Its RA is 6 h 23 mins dec -10 deg 13 mins. Yep its not exactly bright enough to read by hehehehe. If its bright enough to show up on Deep Sky survey plates Im keen to try for it
Scott

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by PhotonCollector

I can see it has colour too - red and there appears to be an even fainter reddish glow just to the right of centre.

Paul

I can see faintish Red stuff all around it like a giant very faint Red spiral galaxy!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Here is the same shot with Brightness & contrast fiddled with to see the Red I can see.

[tornado33]

Thanks. Interesting image with the processing there. Syar Atlas Pro shows some faint galaxies around in that area.
Scott