NGC6729 from the front driveway..

[AlexN]

Thought considering for the first time in a while I've been able to get out of saturday work I'd take the opportunity and image under moonless (albeit, suburban) skies...

This is actually constructed over the course of 3 separate nights of imaging and hobbled together now that I feel there is enough data to support any sort of final product... Still miles away from completion, and I seriously feel that the suburban skies are affecting my ability to get the dust to stand out...

Detals:
50x300s lights (IDAS LPS P2 filtered)
40x300s darks

SBIG ST2000XCM @ -15°C
Self Guided

Celestron C130 SLT + MPCC
Focused by @Focus+Robofocus

HEQ5 Pro, tuned + belt driven



EDIT : Uploaded a 2nd image with an extra 4.5hrs exposure time.

[RickS (Rick)]

A tough target from suburban skies! Well done.

[AlexN]

Hoping to head out to Pete's place this evening to get another few hours data on it from dark skies...

[Rex]

Wow that's a good job from a light polluted sky Alex, well done mate!

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Looks pretty right to me. Great work.
Mike

[AlexN]

Captured another 4hrs worth so far tonight. Should look a bit better by the morning.

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by AlexN

Captured another 4hrs worth so far tonight. Should look a bit better by the morning.

There's a coincidence. I have just done 4 hours on the same object and was thinking I had not seen anyone else doing this little group.

Too pooped and cold tp process tonight though.
Cheers on your results so far. The extra data should be great.
Peter

[AlexN]

Here it is 4.5hrs deeper.. Lost about an hours worth of data due to some very strange guiding action that I had last night but still its an improvement I feel.. Added to first post too for comparison

[jase (Jason)]

A solid result Alex, certainly for suburbia style imaging. Image looks like there is more data hiding in the shadows waiting to be presented. Perhaps noise will overcome the image as a result.

[AlexN]

There is some solid detail in the dust but as you say, the more I stretch it out, the more the image is overwhelmed with both sky glow and noise. Will add a few more hours to it tonight

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice one Alex,

I've started having a crack at this also. suburban skies make it hard. my results are similar to yours.

[AlexN]

I really need to get back into a mono camera with narrowband filters to image from home or shoot things with a bit more surface brightness..

Got a lot of thinking to do with regard to my imaging setup at the moment. Thinking of making some changes to the whole lot.