This rig sports an ASI1600MM-Pro mono camera and I shot 300-second subframes using Ha. This image was shot with my Askar FRA400 Platform, which has a focal length of 400mm and an f-ratio of 5.5. Then perhaps I will have a new version that I can be unashamed of! One day I hope to get back to these images and add more data to them. So for now - these projects will show what can be done with shorter than optimal total exposure times. On the other hand, I must admit that these are not examples of excellent results that I would like to show. On one hand, I must say that the resulting images are much better than I expected given the short integration times. SO I have been processing these and seeing what I could do with the data. The last project I published, IC 1848, was in the same boat. Well - the weather did NOT hold out and the 8th turned out to be the end of the clear skies!Īs a result of this, I ended up with a few projects that were a little - shall we say - “lean” on integration time. As a result of this, I started a few new targets on the 8th and planned on continuing as long as the weather held out. I had heard that the clear weather that we had been having was due to continue for 2-3 more nights.
With almost 12 hours of darkness, I shot as much as I could! On November 8th, I decided to try for a few new targets.
Many of my recent projects have come from a spate of wonderful clear skies with no moon that happened from Nov 5th through Nov 8th. I thought I had my chance to grab it on November 8th this year. The Lobster Claw Nebula is not as well known as many Astro targets - but I have seen some really nice images of it before and because of its unusual nature, I had added it to my target wish list.
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