Rosette - Saturday Night..

[JohnP]

Did this Saturday night - never imaged before - It's quite a interesting object - loads going on in it. Shame my FOV only gets the middle. Image details 22X5mins Ha with ZS66 - Atik 16ic. Also attached inverted image showing all the nebula fronts/ star forming regions.

Is it me or can I see CP3O's face in the middle....?

John.

[Fay]

You are funny John, certaininly looks like C3PO!

I like Rosette, there really is a lot going on, enough for a few separate images. Looking good!

[JohnP]

Thks Fay - Yep I must try & Mosaic surrounding area....

CP3PO!

..... You've got an extra P........!

[Fay]

don't like to get his name wrong!

[Mac]

cant see c3po, but i can see the scream, in the negative.

[Carole]

One of my favourite targets, looking forward to seeing a mosaic John. 

It's interesting to see such close detail, as before this I had thought the dark lines (bottom right) were gaps/cracks in the nebula, but they are clearly darker matter in the foreground, and I never before noticed CP30. 

Carole

[Mike]

Really nice image John. Lots of detail and nice round stars.

[RobertM]

That's an excellent image John.  With that quality of data you could possibly enhance the contrast a bit more but it looks really good as it is.  Any chance of adding OIII or SI ?

Robert

[JohnP]

Thks Mac, Carole, Mike & Robert for comments.

It was one of those strange nights - I hadn't imaged in over 3 months yet everything just worked. Put my mount in normal place on grass (three small impression marks still there from last time) & polar alignment was about 1mm off through reticule... Hooked everything up & all cameras worked first time. Did one star alignment to Betelguese & as near as damn it bang in middle of CCD (& FOV on my setup is small..) Used K3 for guiding & worked flawlessly for whole session - in fact I would say just about best guiding I have ever had - I think Max pixel movement over whole of image was less than 2px in either RA or DEC.

I started early because I have limited time to see Rosette from my garden... I was all packed up & back in doors with glass or Red by 9.00pm (after just on 2hrs of subs). I didn't even take darks or flats...

Guess that'll be it for the year now & I'll be plagued with issues....

Anyway - minimal processing on imaging - just a quick stack & stretch - I hope to get some more frames of surrounding area next time out & try & do mosaic - will process more carefully then..

Cheers for comments - John

[RobertM]

I was all packed up & back in doors with glass or Red by 9.00pm (after just on 2hrs of subs). I didn't even take darks or flats...

I wish we all had it that easy ...

[Tony G]

Good to see you back out, even if it was for only 2 hrs. Look at what you could do with with a weekend down at Blacklands. 

Tony G

[JohnP]

Cheers Mr. G - Speak to you later in week - John

[JohnP]

you could possibly enhance the contrast a bit more

Here you go...just a tad otherwise noise & stars size start to increase.....

[Fay]

Really lovely John

[MarkS]

John,

Great to see an image from you again!  And that one is a great image - excellent detail there and nice round stars.

Mark