Astrophotography

NGC 2244 Rosetta Nebula in narrow-band  (Hubble palette) Nope is not my birthday LOL but it seems to me that Emil Pera starts to enjoy the work on narrow-band images so a few days ago he send me the stack of my NB images used in our project. So (drumming sound) here it is m baby :-) looks good to me! The processing is done in the Hubble palette, I'm at hospital now so in a few days I hope to do a version using the CFHT ( Canadian - France -Hawaii Telescope ) palette, in that case the Nebula will be mostly read.

NGC 2244 Rozetta Nebula First major project together with Emil Pera. Emil Pera: Newton 8'', ASA Keller corrector/reducer, Eq6, Canon 1000Da, iso 800,TS OAG. Exp: 52x3,5' + 66x4'- Nov. and Dec. 2011. Emil Kolbert: EQ-6, TS ED-APO, corrector TS 2", Qhy9M @ -30°C. Exposures: 36 x 15' Ha, 19 x 15' O3 and 28 x 15' S2 February 2012. For us it is the first 6 channel image. Total exposure time 28 hours So after long sleepless nights.... it is done, we can live now :-)

IC 405 Flemming Star I have "attacked" this object some time ago using a camera equipped with a Kodak 1602E sensor but because it was a NABG I couldn't expose enough to get the nebula as I wanted. Technical data Exposures 15x900 seconds Main equipment (photographic): TS ED-APO 90/500 mm (3.5" FL 5.5) with QHY9M @-30°C Filter: Astrodon H-alfa 6 nm  Guiding: Celestron 102/660 mm with Atik16ic, filer UHC Mont: EQ-6 Pro with EQMOD Stacking: DSS Processing: black point adjustment. Still needs more exposures but I'm running out of good weather :-(