Cocoon Nebula with Canon 10D

Had a nice night out tonight and was able to capture a lot of good
stuff.

I wanted to try the Cocoon Nebula, since it has an interesting mix of colors and dust lanes...and a bazillion stars.

I took 80 minutes worth of exposures through the Tak Epsilon at f3.3. Used ImagesPlus for about everything except the final curves adjusting and tweaks. I gave a go at flat fielding with a little success, although I had to crop this one a little. Anyway, here are the details and full resolution link:

http://www.ricksastro.com/Gallery/htm/10D_Cocoon.htm

Comments/suggestions welcomed.

Rick Krejci

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Rick,
this is a phantastic image!

I thought, you would not even try such a faint object with the 10D instead of your SXV-H9.

I guess, the low temperature helped too to reduce th noise.
Keep up your nice imaging work!

Johannes
http;//panther-observatory.com

Rick...... WOW!!
Look at all those stars, colors & detail... awesome!
Also, your stars are pinpoints... your tracking is dead on, great!


Thanks for sharing a beautiful shot!


Keep up the great work!


Ivan

Rick,

That is really amazing what you can do with a camera that is not optimized for astro-imaging.

Jeff