Thor's Helmet

Once I started working on this last night I stayed with it 'till the small hours : blink:

This is data from early 2013 through to early February 2014.....a total of about six and a half hours. I probably can do better with this but just kept going last night to see what was possible.....rather than doing it right to the nth degree. (A failing of mine I am afraid :blush: ). The early data was flipped compared to the later data. I had no guiding on my scope until last September - so there is quite a mix here of sub durations as well as the actual field of view on the subs. Having gotten it all together I suppose I did not spend the time on actual processing that will pull things out better - but that will come in due course. I'll share the 1st effort here.

I have only relatively recently been using Sequence Generator Pro for capturing and this has led me to plate solving which I knew nothing about last year. (I was controlling my scope via Sky X SAE). However, it is fantastic now to know that I can go back to this subject, in due course and with plate solving and auto centring, I will not have any problem getting the subject back in the middle of my FoV.

Here is a low res picture - higher resolution pic at my Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/kinch-astro/12833159855/

Kinch.

Great capture on a very difficult object.
John

Thanks John......I always liked this particular nebula.

Brendan.

That's very good. I like that.
Well done!

Thanks Michael.
There is room for improvement (as ever) - hope I can get some more data when next in Spain and scope set up.........which may be a while unfortunately

Brendan.