Saturday, February 27, 2016

Feeling Crabby!

I imaged a number of objects with the DS 2.3+/8 inch Newt combo.  Here is a heavily cropped image of the Crab Nebula. Even though this is just a tiny part of the full frame, I'm very pleased with the level of detail in the nebula. This is a stack of 6-25-second integrations.


Here's a more processed version with color corrected:



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