Excellent work, as usual, Tyler. Maybe just once you should post a mediocre image to help some of the rest of us feel better about our images. :) But seriously, when I first say your M27 it seemed to not look like other shots of M27 I've seen. So I goggled "Dumbbell Nebula M27" and looked at several images. None showed the nebulosity your picture shows attached to the top and bottom of the nebula. Is that "extra" nebulosity real or an artifact of the imaging technique you used? BTW, have you seen the work of U-A's newest member/astroimager, David Rankin? Cheers, patrick On 01 Jul 2009, at 16:45 , Tyler Allred wrote:
Hi SLAS.
I finally got my Starlight Xpress camera back from England and got a couple of nights to try it out. I decided to image a couple of old friends. the Dumbbell and the Crescent. I used Optec narrowband filters in Hydrogen Alpha (red) and Oxygen III (green and blue) wavelengths and combined them into color images.
Here is a link to my latest images page. Click the top two images a few times for a full versions of these recent efforts.
http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Tyler