Observation by Mike Scarisbrick: M27

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Mike Scarisbrick

Observer

Mike Scarisbrick

Observed

2018 Oct 11 - 23:00

Uploaded

2018 Nov 11 - 22:38

Objects

The Apple Core Nebula (M27)

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Constellation

Vulpecula

Field centre

RA: 19^h59^m
Dec: +22°44'
Position angle: +11°00'

Field size

1°16' × 0°50'

Equipment

Skywatcher Explorer 200P
Baader MPCC Coma Corrector
Canon 500D
AZ/EQ6 mount

Exposure

15 x 60 seconds at ISO 1600, plus a few dark and bias frames

Location

Cambridgeshire

Target name

M27

Title

M27

About this image

With guests round on the evening of the 11th October, we had a brief tour of a selection of objects visible in the pier mounted 8 inch Newtonian (the usual Autumn suspects). The double cluster in Perseus still has to be in my top three "through the eyepiece" objects. We ended on M27, the Dumbbell nebula. I intended to use this as an opportunity to show how much more could be seen by just popping a standard DSLR on the end of the 'scope, and the demo seemed reasonably effective with just a single 30 second exposure.
I went on to take some more pictures at 60 second exposures, this is 15 of them, stacked and processed in Astro Art 6. The rich field in this area flatters the equipment.

Files associated with this observation

M27_12102018_200mmdia_f5_15x60secs_EOS_ISO1600.jpg (465.0 kB)

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Graham Winstanley, David Basey, Andy Wilson, Mr Michael Alan Frost, Alan Thomas

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