Bubble Nebula and friends in HST palette

[Paramount]

Hi
I thought I would post this even though I am planning on adding more data later to smooth the image a bit better. It is a wide field of the following DSOs
NGC7635 - AKA Bubble nebula
M52
NGC7538
NGC7510
Sh2-157 - "Lobster Claw" nebula
Sh2-161
There may be more in there but I haven't had time to look any further

I took this over 2 nights with 8x20 minutes Ha and OIII and 10x20 minutes SII. There was a period of poor seeing last night when doing the SII data courtesy of some thin misty cloud going overhead for about an hour. It was taken with the Takahashi FSQ106ED at f5 with Starlight Xpress H36 on a Paramount ME auto guided with an OAG and Lodestar camera.
I have tried the Bubble nebula several times before, both with small and large field of view all of which can be seen in the picture gallery on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk this is the widest I have gone and gives a bit more context to size.
I have posted a larger version 2400 pixels wide at
http://www.pbase.com/imaging_the_hea...03739/original
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon

[Ric]

Wonderful image Gordon, the colours look great.

The Bubble neb is an amazing object to image, it always presents itself with a three dimensional look and feel.

Top stuff

[TheAstroGuy (Shane Ross)]

There's just so much to look at there, truly wonderful image thanks for posting this, it's a great shot.

Regards

Shane

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Mate..... You're supposed to live in England..... You know, wet cold cloudy, miserably foggy,............... So where's all his imaging time coming from, you haven't moved to the south of France while we were not looking?

Nice to see you hard at it.

Clive

[Paramount]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Mate..... You're supposed to live in England..... You know, wet cold cloudy, miserably foggy,............... So where's all his imaging time coming from, you haven't moved to the south of France while we were not looking?

Nice to see you hard at it.

Clive

Hi Clive
I have been lucky in that my nights off have coincided with the few clear nights that we have had between the clouds and rain, typically, I am working tonight and it is raining which I don't mind. It is definitely a case of being in the right place at the right time and having equipment that is working perfectly (apart from the scare with the laptop power supply which was resolved very quickly). I also tend to be a bit more organised as well now in that I have planned my imaging for the year to coincide when my chosen subjects have come out from behind my house or neighbours trees and so on
Best wishes
Gordon