M1 - The Crab Nebula

[MarkS]

Crab Nebula taken from Sidcup before the clouds rolled in.

22 x 5 min with modified Canon EOS 350D on Celestron C11 with F6.3 focal reducer.  Astonomik CLS filter + IR filter.
Guiding with 300mm lens with x2 converter + modified Toucam.
Scaled down by 2/3 and then cropped.

There was a bit too much wind and the seeing was poor but I'm still quite pleased with the result.  Ambient temperature 4C.



Here is the one I took this time last year at the December Deep Sky Camp:



What a difference in a year!  The main differences are two-fold:
1)  The camera is now modified (letting through more H-alpha)
2)  Guiding means I can take 5min exposures instead of the previous 30sec unguided exposures.

Mark

[Fay]

I like that very much, Mark, lots of depth.

So many subjects on the horizon, for us, if the weather would improve!

[Rocket Pooch]

very good mark, i'm going to have another go at that if i can this year my last one was not brilliant, maybe next week if its clear

[Mac]

Nice image, you can definatly see the change.

if the weather would improve!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Fay can i have some of the drugs you are taking, wow you have some funny ideas.

see you this afternoon.

[Fay]

I'll be using all my drugs for today, Mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RobertM]

That's really excellent Mark - good depth and detail, it looks almost 3d.  Could you do me a favour and bring your guide camera an lens in for me to look at, I'm looking at using something much smaller than the ED80 for guiding my refractor.

Fay - don't take all those drugs, keep some for me .... please !

[Daniel]

I agree with Robert, looks very 3d, lovely definition, I was suprised this object was a lot tougher to image than I expected but you've captured it beautifully.

Excellent job!

Daniel
:O)

[Carole]

Yet another wonderful shot from Mark, you never fail to impress. 
A big improvement on last years image.

Carole

[JohnP]

Mark - Excellent... Such an improvement... You are seriously making me think of tackling modifying my EOS300D... You get such great results...

John

[Mike]

The stars look slightly overblown but it is a really nice image.