Cone Nebula and surrounding area

[MarkS]

Another excellent sky in the depths of Kent last night (SQM-L 20.7) but not as good as Friday at Rother Valley DSC (20.9).  Temperature fell to -3.5C by 6am.  Little dew but lots of ice.

Here is the Cone Nebula and surroundings.
60 x 5min (i.e. 5 hours total exposure) at ISO 800
H-alpha modified Canon 350D on Tak Epsilon 180ED with CLS filter.



Larger version (2/3 scaled) is here:
http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2011/cone27112011.jpg

It will require many more subs to image all that dust properly

Mark

[JohnP]

Hi Mark, Lovely FOV & a great start. Again a little too harshly processed (a bit like your first m45) for me - I prefer the softer/ less contrasty approach. Very nice indeed though.

Sounds like you had a great night.

John