Egg Nebula

Hi All,

This image was the result of a challenge by someone on the APUG to see if any detail could be captured in this obscure nebula (Hubble, of course did a super job on it: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0307/gallery.hubble.heritage/gal.05.egg.nebula.jpg).

So here is my attempt using my AP 10" Mak-Cass at F22. 1 hour L, 30 min each RGB. Processed in Maxim using DDP, etc. This thing is small and the outer extensions are extremely faint.

Roland Christen

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Here is a closeup of it (Camera ST10XE, CFW8).

Roland Christen

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Roland,

WOW!! Another fantastic image. Thank you again!

Tom

Excellent shot Roland! simply amazing!
Keep'em coming!


Ivan

Roland,

Thanks very much for all of these wonderful planetary nebulae shots!! All of them are superb, and at an image scale where one can see much delicate detail!! I truly think they are much neglected area in astro imaging I would imagine because its pretty tough at high F/ratios.

keep em coming!!

P.S. --would you please try for IC 418 aka the rasberry later in the year, it shows beautiful colour in my large dob, pretty tough though since its so small