This is NGC7822. It’s a star forming region of Cepheus. I captured this over a number of weeks given the poor weather we’ve had recently. I used HDR mode on my Risingcam with sub lengths of 5mins or 10mins. Despite this, the resulting stack had low signal. I think I’ll avoid HDR mode for narrowband in future. Anyway, I’m reasonably happy with the results. This region is begging for a mosaic and perhaps I’ll get around to it one day.
This is NGC 6914. It’s a both a reflection nebula and an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus located almost 6000 light years away. Capturing this target has to be a 2-step process unless you’re in a very dark sky area. I captured the Ha and OIII emissions using an sv220 narrowband filter in my Bortle 6 sky at home and the broadband data was collected when I was in Bortle 2 sky in Wales
Here’s the Iris Nebula. It’s a dark nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. The Iris itself is quite bright but it’s surrounded by a dark nebula that’s quite tricky to capture in light polluted skies. I imaged this target because I wanted to compare how a my Bortle 6 sky compares to Bortle 1 in Wales. I thought this would be a disaster from my location but actually it turned out much better than I thought it would. It’s also taken using HDR mode on my Touptek IMX585 using the new 4.36 firmware. It seems that this finally works ok after a year of waiting
I was determined to get a mosaic of the Veil Nebula. This one consists of three panels of ~10hrs each. It could really do with more panels on the top and the bottom to get the entire nebula, but this is done for now. I want to move onto a Sadr mosaic. It was stacked and processed in Siril alpha build using astrometric registration. I followed my narrowband workflow and my mosaic with Siril workflow.
Last night was the second night I’ve used my new Onstep converted EXOS2 (a EQ5 class mount) so I thought I’d try a different target. I’ve always liked the Sadr region and other than the Crescent Nebula, I’ve not yet imaged it. I’ve seen some fantastic pictures of the Butterfly Nebula so I thought I’d give it a try to see how well I could do. Here’s the result from just 3hrs of imaging. I’m so impressed that I’m now planning a mosaic of the region.
