Poking around Galaxy map I found this cool mountain shaped, Ha rich object near NGC 2451 and ó Pup. So I thought I'd have a go at imaging it.
No idea what it is or how to properly ID it - so would welcome input on this. Sky Safari 5 pro suggests IREC (InfraRed Excess Clouds) 374 Dark Nebula...
It's dim though, this is 3.5 hrs 5nm Ha already.
Will have to test to see if there's any O3 or S2 present.
Anyway - thought some may find it interesting to see something different!
Well blow me down, guess who was gunna start on that same thing after full moon??? I couldnt recall an image of it before and a search showed very few, so thought, might have a go....and your result confirms it to be a most worthwhile subject. Nice
guess who was gunna start on that same thing after full moon??? I couldnt recall an image of it before and a search showed very few, so thought, might have a go....and your result confirms it to be a most worthwhile subject. Nice
Mike
Lol, great minds think alike hey Mikey Seriously though - with your mighty FOV it should be very cool
Personally - I've only just recovered from gathering 8 bl*%dy panels of NB data on the Seagull - still have to assemple it all
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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Nicely detailed Andy
Cheers Dunk
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Wow.
A really interesting object. Now on my hit list.
As for how to capture more data , you need to up photon capture rate = Bigger 'scope
Cool Peter, give it some mega photons!
As to a bigger scope, well I have an RC8, but the Moonlite focuser I ordered has so far been from USA>Melbourne (wrong address)>USA>AUSTRIA (Wrong country!) > ? I may see it by Christmas - it's probably racked up more frequent flyer points than any other item on this forum already.
Calibration
Center (RA, Dec): (115.445, -41.658)
Center (RA, hms): 07h 41m 46.719s
Center (Dec, dms): -41° 39' 27.982"
Size: 3.04 x 2.29 deg
Radius: 1.905 deg
Pixel scale: 3.29 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 293 degrees E of N
WCS file: wcs.fits
New FITS image: new-image.fits
Reference stars nearby (RA,Dec table): rdls.fits
Stars detected in your images (x,y table): axy.fits
Correspondences between image and reference stars (table): corr.fits
KMZ (Google Sky): image.kmz
World Wide Telescope: view in WorldWideTelescope
Sky Safari 5 pro suggests IREC (InfraRed Excess Clouds) 374 Dark Nebula...
I couldnt recall an image of it before and a search showed very few, so thought, might have a go....and your result confirms it to be a most worthwhile subject. Nice 
