IC 2118 Witches Head 30 January 2006

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Subject	IC 2118 Witch's Head nebula
Date	30th January 2006
Telescope or Lens	Tak FS60C with AP 0.75 focal reducer
Mount	Paramount ME
Camera	ST2000XM
Filters	Tru Tech LRGB
Total Exposures	L	180 min	R	180 min	G	180 min	B	180 min
Sub exposure	18 x 10 min		18 x 10 min		18 x 10 min		18 x 10 min
Binning	All at 1x1
Field of view and resolution	Approx 160 x 122 Arcminute. 6 Arcsec / Pixel

Comments

This image took a long time to acquire. This is my third seasonal attempt. The nebula is quite low from my location and dogged by light pollution. Added to that the murky winter mist and poor UK weather have played their part. I started the image with the luminance back in October 2005!! There are still some gradients in the image but it got to the point where correcting them further was detracting from what data I had. Overall I am reasonably pleased, although some of the fainter nebula areas have not come through.