The Little Dumbbell

Here is M76. This object has been always been a tough capture for me. This time harder because I had some guiding problems, but I managed to save some of the data. A full size image and exposure / processing details are at:

http://jthommes.com/Astro/Little_Dumbbell.htm
(be sure to click on the image for full size)

C8 203mm at f/7.3
Artemis285
G11/Gemini
Guiding - Megrez II, DSI Pro,

Earlier image from 2003:

http://jthommes.com/MiscAstro/Archives/Little_Dumbbell.htm

Nice detail! And a huge improvement from your previous shot.
I think a mount is like us, sometimes they just don't want to work :C

I think that this one came out fine Jim. Nice colors on the stars.

congrats on this fantastic result, Jim!


Dietmar

(I only tried it once when I still had my lx200 - but had no chance those days, since the mount I had was absolutely no good for DSI - it was lx200 fork - the original one...)-:
I have this object on my wishlist and I am just waiting to go fort it as soon as the wheather allows an attemt.
I hope my 9" on the stable one arm fork mount will give me decent opportunity,...as I am used to so far.)

Beautiful detail & colors Jim! 8)
Well done!

Thanks all for the comments.

Tough or not, you did a great job of capturing this PN!

Tom