This image of the Crescent Nebula was taken at the Sask Summer Star Party. I am pretty happy to have captured it as I could not see the nebula visually nor could I really make it out on the camera display. I did check the goto accuracy on some visible targets nearby so had reason to believe I had the target in the frame and that turned out to be the case.
Details
Date and Location – 2007-08-11; Cypress Hills at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party.Equipment – Williams 105mm with modified Canon 350D on HEQ5 mount.Exposures – 66 light and 29 dark frames at 58 sec and ISO 1600. In addition, 25 flats were used in the calibration.Processing – Alignment, stacking and digital development in ImagesPlus followed by some enhancement in Photoshop.