Last Nights Bubble Nebula

80 minutes luminance and 60 minutes each red green and blue, all 2 minute subs.

That is a cracking image did you get that in the 80mm

Carl,

That was with the 10" and guided with the 80mm.

I think the blood red is bang on, can I ask how did you focus the image ?

Where do you all get the time to take these images ??

Dave,

Focused using Robofocus on the SCT focus knob using astroart to get sweet point.

As for getting the time.........with all the bad weather we have had every clear night is worth the loss of sleep. Even though there was some haze and a pesky moon I just kept going. I went inside at 2am after starting the final one hour run of images and fell asleep on the sofa. Woke up at 6 am and ran out to check things.....system was happily tracking the guide star and no cable snags

Kieran - what calibrations did you run? Darks, bias, flats etc?

Nice image but I see a fair bit of noise and some yukky red blotches. It also looks a little "soft" - did you do some unsharpening?

Don't take offence - its still a really nice image.