Flying Dragon(s) Sh2-114 from Bortle 8

[Carole]

VERY faint object - taken from home, just didn't want to waste the lovely clear skies we have been having lately.

It's quite noisy but to be expected in the circumstances, I must try this again at a dark site.
I decided as I went along that I needed to increase the length of Ha exposures, hence the different lengths.
Plus a meridian flip in the middle of it all, a bit of a mission to process with the RGB being binned anyway.
Ha 900 x 14
Ha 600 x 2
Ha 1200 x 4 (total Ha 5 Hours 10mins
RGB 9 x 300 binned x 2
RGB 15 x 200 binned x 2
Total RGB 1 hour 35mins

Grand total 6 hours 45 mins
Atik428EX, SWED80, HEQ5

Mapped HaRGB

[Roberto]

Very good image Carole! This is a really cool object and the star field is full of colours.

Roberto

[Carole]

Thanks Roberto, it was quite difficult to process, I might go back and have another tweak.

Carole

[The Thing]

Another good and interesting subject. You are on a roll Carole.

[ApophisAstros]

Think you have got me into a whole different catalogue!
Like this one,
Roger

[Carole]

Thanks Duncan and Roger.

Carole

[NoelC]

Very good Carole
- must be very feint.

Noel

[Carole]

must be very feint.

It certainly was Noel, I could just about see the "eyebrows" of the Dragon after a 900sec sub

Carole

[Hugh]

Good one Carole ~ really can see the dragon!

Hugh

[Carole]

Thanks Hugh

[MarkS]

Dragons! That's not one I'm familiar with.

It's come out well - nicely processed.

Mark

[Carole]

Thanks Mark, had to push the processing a bit to "find" it, and not happy with the large stars, so looking forward to having another attempt from a dark location.

You should take a look on Astrobin at the global stream and see the images that others post, every now and then you will find a one that is new to you, and you can save it to your bookmarks.  That's where I get all these lesser known ones from.

I think I will do it with the Atik460EX next time for a bigger FOV.

Carole

[Carole]

I took another looking at the processing:

[ApophisAstros]

Like the new one ,  hopefully have a chat at Kelling to see what you did to make it better,
Roger