The Prat Factor

Dave I noticed that before on other luminance images I had taken in the past. I think its real but no idea of why.

Kieran,

It is real. See here;

www.stargazing.net/david/messierD70/VeilNebula1_300mm.html

This must be due to an obscuring dark nebula.

Very nice love the colour great work well done fine image

Fantastic images Kieran, it's really obvious that there is a higher star density on the top of the second image, must be a mid-ground dark nebula in there somewhere.

Yes - what a total muppet :roll:

Did I ever tell you the time that I ... perhaps not... :oops:

Nice images. The second image seems just a tad saturated - hot pixels seem to be red and fairly obvious. However, they're not too dominant and as Dave G says, you get the full spectrum and the nebulosity shows ever so well.

Dave

Well Kieran, if it's any consolation I tried some widefield imaging one night with my camera piggybacked on the scope and fitted with the 135mm f2.8 - pictures came back with nothing like what I expected as I'd lined the 'scope up on Deneb and then carefully centred Sadr in the camera viewfinder

So we've all done it

Fantastic results, as always, once you've got the colours the right way about!