Nebula Thread - post your images of Deep Sky Nebula's

[Jeff WX1USN]

Last night it was going to be clear for a couple of hours early then scheduled to cloud over. I quickly set up the Seestar S50, took about 3 minutes and told it to go to C33 and it centered it dead on. I then started it imaging and went to bed for 2 hours, so I planned. I woke up about 2 am and went out on the deck to the scope and it was still imaging but not saving any images because it had totally clouded over. The Seestar scopes will not save any images if there are not enough stars. This is the live stacked image from the session, it stacked 95 minutes of 10 second exposures in my Bortle 7.5 area right over the mall 300 feet away. The blue in the image is faint but can still be seen.

This image is straight out of the S50 using its internal editing tools no post processing.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Last night it was going to be clear for a couple of hours early then scheduled to cloud over. I quickly set up the Seestar S50, took about 3 minutes and told it to go to C33 and it centered it dead on. I then started it imaging and went to bed for 2 hours, so I planned. I woke up about 2 am and went out on the deck to the scope and it was still imaging but not saving any images because it had totally clouded over. The Seestar scopes will not save any images if there are not enough stars. This is the live stacked image from the session, it stacked 95 minutes of 10 second exposures in my Bortle 7.5 area right over the mall 300 feet away. The blue in the image is faint but can still be seen.

This image is straight out of the S50 using its internal editing tools no post processing.

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Smart scopes, stopping when stars aren’t visible. Pretty amazing you get these results in a light polluted area and without post processing.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I put the scope out last night and ran C33 for 4 hours, 10 pm to 2 am and then this is the live stack, I looked at the individual frames and towards the end of the run there were trees in the way but they don't affect the live stack image
They were 10 second exposures with a lot wind, I was running Alt/Az

This one is better than the last version, 117min vs 95min and the sky conditions might have been better

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I put the scope out last night and ran C33 for 4 hours, 10 pm to 2 am and then this is the live stack, I looked at the individual frames and towards the end of the run there were trees in the way but they don't affect the live stack image
They were 10 second exposures with a lot wind, I was running Alt/Az

This one is better than the last version, 117min vs 95min and the sky conditions might have been better

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That's a significant difference. More detail, more colour. Beautiful image.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Did a mosaic of Caldwell 34 (NGC6960) last night with the Seestar S50. The first one is stacked and edited in the S50 the second is punched up in Lightroom. I don't have the time or patience to play with it more right now.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Did a mosaic of Caldwell 34 (NGC6960) last night with the Seestar S50. The first one is stacked and edited in the S50 the second is punched up in Lightroom. I don't have the time or patience to play with it more right now.

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I'd be surprised if you were able to get more detail out of it. This is great!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

did a 1.6x mosaic (in the Seestar it isn't tighter but wider at 1.6) I was able to get the entire North American Nebula C20 NGC7000 in the frame in 119 minutes

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

did a 1.6x mosaic (in the Seestar it isn't tighter but wider at 1.6) I was able to get the entire North American Nebula C20 NGC7000 in the frame in 119 minutes

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It's amazing how well the Seestar tracks. Not one elongated star in sight, not that I can see.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

B&W version of C20 NGC7000

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I have found an object that the Seestar doesn't handle well from my Bortle 7.5-8 backyard, actually Bortle 8.0 for sure over the mall.
C34 the Western Veil has a lot of blue in it and the S30 doesn't pick that up well. the first is straight from the S30 with S30 edits the others are tweaked in LR. I am using 20 second sub exposures fro a total of 184 minutes

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I have found an object that the Seestar doesn't handle well from my Bortle 7.5-8 backyard, actually Bortle 8.0 for sure over the mall.
C34 the Western Veil has a lot of blue in it and the S30 doesn't pick that up well. the first is straight from the S30 with S30 edits the others are tweaked in LR. I am using 20 second sub exposures fro a total of 184 minutes

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I think it's still pretty impressive what you manage to pull out in post.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The Iris Nebula, Seestar S50 bortle 8 skies

from the Wiki:
The Iris Nebula (also known as NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4) is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The designation NGC 7023 refers to the open cluster within the larger reflection nebula designated LBN 487.

The nebula, which shines at magnitude +6.8, is illuminated by a magnitude +7.4 star designated HD 200775.[1] It is located near the Mira-type variable star T Cephei, and near the bright magnitude +3.23 variable star Beta Cephei (Alfirk). It lies 1,300 light-years away and is six light-years across

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The Eastern Veil Nebula Caldwell 33 NGC6992 taken with the Seestar S30. This is 4 nights imaging stacked. This the best yet that I have gotten of C33

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The Eastern Veil Nebula Caldwell 33 NGC6992 taken with the Seestar S30. This is 4 nights imaging stacked. This the best yet that I have gotten of C33

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I think it's magnificent!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Went out last night even with the full moon and thin clouds, I wanted to get started on C34 the Veil Nebula as tonight and the next couple nights will be clear.

As I was waiting for it to come from behind my trees I did an hour on M17 the Swan, got 35 minutes of usable subs, came out pretty well. The Veil is light need much more time which I hope I will get over the next few nights.

These are straight out of the seestar

I am in a Bortle 8 area 300 feet from a major mall.