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Started by dan kowall, 09/27/2006 11:52PM

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Posted 09/27/2006 11:52PM Opening Post

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Captured, as always, from my light polluted back yard.
About 12 hours with an ST10 on a 6" refractor.
A larger image and more details can be found here:
http://www.photonhunter.com/nebulae/IC5146,Wide.html

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Posted 09/28/2006 12:12AM #1

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Nice shot Dan.

12 hours eh? You are really going for it mate.

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Posted 09/28/2006 01:23AM #2

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ASTOUNDING! 8)
What a beautiful shot Dan... congrats! 8)

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Posted 09/28/2006 03:33AM #3

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That is an incredible image. It shows all the delicate features of this intriguing object.
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Posted 09/28/2006 04:11AM #4

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That is one of the best images that I have seen of this object! Beautiful!

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Posted 09/28/2006 08:13AM #5

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Great shot dan!boy 10 hours of exposures....I'll have to try that one of these days 8O

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Posted 09/28/2006 12:56PM #6

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Dan,

you are an inspiration! If you can do this from your light-polluted back yard, there's hope for us in similar situations! Great shot!

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Posted 09/28/2006 01:08PM #7

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Wow,12 hours.It paid off nicely.Beautiful image.

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Posted 09/28/2006 10:14PM #8

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Thanks, guys!
A couple of comments:
Greg---12 hours is a lot, but I was shooting unbinned and I needed to go that long to get a decent S/N.
Eric said "If you can do this from your light-polluted back yard, there's hope for us in similar situations!"---I was lucky in that I was able to get most of this data during a good imaging spell. As a matter of fact, I didn't have to do any gradient removal on this image. That's always a relief.
In response to an observation on another group, I stretched my data a little more on this image.
You can see the result here:
http://www.photonhunter.com/nebulae/IC5146,Wide,str,lrg.html
It shows more of the nebulosity. I'll probably update the page to show this version. It looks better to me.

dan

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