IC1396 & Elephants Trunk

Not the time of year to be doing LRGB images. By the time I was taking the blue run the sky was already bright at 3.45am. It was also a brilliant night for meteors with one very bright one and loads of fainter ones.

Hi Kieran
I was going to write a few sentences in reply, until I looked carefully at your picture, this picture speaks for itself, it’s an amazing shot and well done indeed, there are so many stars I can only stare in wonder.

Kieran, with which of the scope/camera combination did you take this photo and what was the exposure details? There appears to be a continuous linear feature across the middle of frame at an angle of ~25 degrees, looks to be a satellite track but I am not sure! Well done and thanks for posting

Clear skies
Mike

Very nice! Is that a meteor trail I noticed below the bright yellow star that is situated above centre in the photo?

Mike,

That was with the 80mm & H16. L:R:G:B 50:40:30:20 minutes.
Had to drop 60 minutes of data due to gear slipage on the lx200. Note to self "Get couterbalance"
Track is a satellite & there is also a faint blue vertical line left of centre due to increasing daylight in the blue imaging.

Kieran,

This is an excellent result ... thanks for the heads up and which I will add to my to-do list.

Thanks Kieran for the info

Ah yes the joys of astrophotography, while out last night (first time in about 6 weeks) attempting to complete some imaging, my camera simply refused to work :x , I wouldn’t mind but I only tested the damn thing last week indoors at home and everything was OK. So after some valuable time wasted I resorted to visual observing.
I’ll test the camera again this evening at home, it will probably work fine, Murphy’s Law strikes again, I just hope I don’t have to wait another six weeks for a clear night!

Mike