Gamma Cygni area

Hi All,

Have just bought a Canon 30D so the 350d is about to go under the knife!

Clear skies here last night so I thought a before and after picture was in order and chose the area around Gamma Cygni as a resonable test area.

During shooting I did have about 50% moon 45 degrees away but it does not seem to have made a dramatic differance.

First time out of the block for the following new equipment;

William Optics 0.8x focal reducer
Astronomic IR/UV block filter (You may notice less blue arounf bright stars now!)

Anyway here is the image including loads of objects;

IC1318 (including dark nebula B347)
DO10
DO11
DO6
Cr421
Do11
DO9
DO43
NGC6910
Cr419
DO44

And that is the high points

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Later,

Jed.

That is some starfield you've captured there Jed! Worthy of a large print on glossy printer mounted on a white mount and black frame for all to see... seriously! Absolutely superb.

Seanie.

Jed, that's some work at 85 exposures ! M29 stands out really well. What a lovely weekend for astro !

Keith..

Fabulously detailed image Jed, the nebula looks great.
Do you have a way of removing the blue halos from around some of the brighter stars?

Geat image Jed! Love the nebulae!

Jed - I'd just echo Dave's comment - can you get rid of the halos? Presumably they are just a processing artifact.

The nebulosity is good and really clear - I bet without the halos it would look even better. Colour saturation seems a tad harsh for my liking but that's a purely personal preference. But the colour range is superb.

As it stands, I really think (and hope) you can process this so it looks even better - but as it is, its a nice image. Well done!

Cheers
Dave