Hi All
Last night was one of those nights when you want to tear your hair out, all the equipment is running smoothly, skies are clear (average seeing though) and the first subframes are downloading nicely and then after 2 subframes at 12.30am clouds blow in from the middle of nowhere and although they are moving fast there doesn't appear to be any break. Anyway I decided to stay out in the hope that it would clear, eventually it did at 2am so I recalibrated the autoguider and restarted and managed to get another 4 subframes in before more clouds and approaching daylight put a final stop on proceedings. Hopefully I will get the chance to add some more Ha data and colour to this a bit later. For comparison there are two previous attempts at this subject that I took last year, one in Ha and one in colour with different scope/camera combinations on the Nebulae page of the image gallery on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk
Takahashi BRC-250
Starlight Xpress H9
Astronomik 12nm Ha filter
Paramount ME autoguided with Starlight Xpress M8C
No calibration was done on the image ie no darks or flats
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon
PS By the way does anybody actually know where the middle of nowhere is?

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Hi Gordon, Still very nice under said conditions, Nice details in the inner regions for being a faint object. And I know what you mean i was trying to finish some images started weeks ago because of the rain and started imaging the cocoon and notice changes in captured details out of focus noise you name it. when i looked up the sky was clear but the stars lost there brightness - Guess what saharra dust creeped in and volcanic ash is stll lingering here its been four days and counting.