Darkness in the North America Nebula

When i sold my Epsilon i knew i could well end up regretting it, but i have to say i'm impressed with the quality of the Esprit 100, nice round stars and a distinct lack of diffraction spikes.

Considering this is only 4 hours through a large amount of atmosphere given it's low elevation i think it has turned out okay.

It took two nights to capture the data and i had an issue with my autofocus on the second night where i lost almost 2 hours in subs that were well off focus, no idea why it happened yet. I also had an issue where my guide star would just shoot off in Dec, again needs further investigation. There's always something.

I have a serious fetish for dark nebula and the dark dust in emission nebula, so in this image i tried to highlight just that.The dark dust here obscures the emission areas and perhaps even the star thought to be the source of ionisation for the Nebula J205551.3+435225.

www.caha.es/newsletter/news05b/Comeron/ngc7000.html

4 hrs in 300 second subs with an Asi 1600 and an astrodon 5nm ha filter. Unity gain -20C.
Mount: AZEQ6
Stacked in APP 2*drizzle

Processed in APP and PS
Hope you like it.
Richard.

Darkness in North America Nebula by Richard Sweeney , on Flickr

Wow! the 3D effect is truly astounding, Richard.
NGC 7000 looks magnificent in your image.

Kind regards from Aubrey.

flt158 wrote: Wow! the 3D effect is truly astounding, Richard.
NGC 7000 looks magnificent in your image.

Kind regards from Aubrey.

Thank you very much Aubrey.