Great shot, Steve.  The big blob is an overexposed shot of the star in that location.  What you are seeing is your aperture, meaning the opening of your scope.  That's my opinion anyway.  Still a great shot. On Monday, November 11, 2013 4:14 PM, "gazebo4sale@comcast.net" <gazebo4sale@comcast.net> wrote: Hi, I had an amazing imaging session last night at my home in urban Mesquite Nevada. Sky was dark and the moon setting. I was able to set up, I had no, none, nada issues with drivers, cables or Murphy (this is the first time he deserted me). I would like your opinions as to whether the big bright ball around the intense nebulosity area is an internal reflecton off my pollution filter. I do like my picture and I hope you do also. Horsehead Nebula see: http://home.comcast.net/~galico/Astropics/Horsehead.jpg I got 53X250 Second Images,ISO 1600 of which Deep Sky Stacker used 46 with a 85% setting for usable frames. There was a satellite that does show up in the images. Thanks Steve Gallenson Equipment Used: Takahashi FSQ 106 N Takahashi EM 200 Temma 2 Canon T3i Hutech Modified Hutech Pollution filter Lodestar Guide Camera mounted on piggybacked 500 mm Nikon Catadioptic Lens. Guided with PHD Captured with Nebulosity Processed with DSS, Nebulosity and Photoshop.' _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

The big ball is a bright star - Zeta Orionis. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of gazebo4sale@comcast.net Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 4:12 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Fwd: Horsehead Nebula Hi, I had an amazing imaging session last night at my home in urban Mesquite Nevada. Sky was dark and the moon setting. I was able to set up, I had no, none, nada issues with drivers, cables or Murphy (this is the first time he deserted me). I would like your opinions as to whether the big bright ball around the intense nebulosity area is an internal reflecton off my pollution filter. I do like my picture and I hope you do also. Horsehead Nebula see: http://home.comcast.net/~galico/Astropics/Horsehead.jpg I got 53X250 Second Images,ISO 1600 of which Deep Sky Stacker used 46 with a 85% setting for usable frames. There was a satellite that does show up in the images. Thanks Steve Gallenson Equipment Used: Takahashi FSQ 106 N Takahashi EM 200 Temma 2 Canon T3i Hutech Modified Hutech Pollution filter Lodestar Guide Camera mounted on piggybacked 500 mm Nikon Catadioptic Lens. Guided with PHD Captured with Nebulosity Processed with DSS, Nebulosity and Photoshop.' _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

Dang! That's astronomy textbook-quality. Congratulations! Seth -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of gazebo4sale@comcast.net Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 4:12 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Fwd: Horsehead Nebula Hi, I had an amazing imaging session last night at my home in urban Mesquite Nevada. Sky was dark and the moon setting. I was able to set up, I had no, none, nada issues with drivers, cables or Murphy (this is the first time he deserted me). I would like your opinions as to whether the big bright ball around the intense nebulosity area is an internal reflecton off my pollution filter. I do like my picture and I hope you do also. Horsehead Nebula see: http://home.comcast.net/~galico/Astropics/Horsehead.jpg I got 53X250 Second Images,ISO 1600 of which Deep Sky Stacker used 46 with a 85% setting for usable frames. There was a satellite that does show up in the images. Thanks Steve Gallenson Equipment Used: Takahashi FSQ 106 N Takahashi EM 200 Temma 2 Canon T3i Hutech Modified Hutech Pollution filter Lodestar Guide Camera mounted on piggybacked 500 mm Nikon Catadioptic Lens. Guided with PHD Captured with Nebulosity Processed with DSS, Nebulosity and Photoshop.' _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".