VDB141 Praying Ghost Nebula (little data)

[Carastro]

Tale of Woe here: 

 

I only managed to get 1 hour 25mins luminance at kelling Heath due to the weather. 

I then went on a further week's holiday to the Cotswolds last week with some astro chums, but the weather there too was not good for imaging. 

 

This is so disappointing when these are my only opportunities to do broadband living in Bortle 8.  There was one evening when it looked like a possibility but there was passing cloud which pretty much ruined any further 600sec lum subs, but I did manage to get away with doing short RGB subs binned so I could add some colour to the Kelling Luminance.  But only even then managed 30 mins of RGB.  

 

So this is only 1 hour 55 mins LRGB.  I have done my best to process it.  Still hoping to get more data some time, but probably won;t be before the end of 2023.  

Astrobin link:

https://www.astrobin.com/tqzek7/

8 x 600 + 1 x 300 lum

4 x 150 binned each of RGB

ED80 and Atik460EX

 

Edited October 31, 2022 by Carastro

[TerryMcK]

I call them long term projects - I have quite a few that I try to add data to when the chance arises due to the fickle nature of our skies in the UK.

I have dedicated cameras for each scope with camera rotators so don't break down the image train at all. I also record the target and angle of the camera in a spreadsheet so when I return back to do some more capturing the FOV is within a degree or so of the original ones.

[Sonyme]

Love the colour of your stars Carole, very Halloween! 😱     Gary

[Astrobdlbug]

It is frustrating with the weather at the moment Carole especially when you make trips away to image and the weather doesn't cooperate, but despite the short integration you have a recognisable image with a good colour balance.

 

Bryan

 

(Thought I posted this last night, but must have forgotton to hit submit reply before I shut down PC)
 

[Vicki]

This is still so lovely though and the colour. It's beyond frustrating with the weather isn't it, but you can keep it stored away so you can add to it as and when you can 

[P Holdsworth]

Despite the short integration it's still a nice image Carole 👍 I use a website called astrometry.com to return to a target where you can run through one of your final subs of your last session and it will give you the exact camera angle rotation to preserve alignment etc........really useful if you end up with a load of short sessions. Attached an example of NGC 7822 showing my camera angle was 83 degrees if I wanted to preserve an exact alignment session to session. 

 

 17th Oct was my last imaging night here in Yorkshire so starting to get slightly frustrating now ! 

Cheers Paul  

[Carastro]

I have done multi sessions on a number of occasions, but as you imply derigging and re-rigging is not so easy to get the angle right.  That it useful to know, but generally I have a mark on my cameras which helps me put them on the same way every time.  But I will take a look at Astrometry.net as I have it installed but didn;t know about the angle thingy.

 

Carole 

[timastrovirus]

Great image Carole, especially since isn't even 90 min of data. Nice details and great colors, good job.

 

[Carastro]

Thanks Tim