Dumbbell nebula From Peckham with 80mm (improved processing)

This is an improved capture and post processing of the M27 Dummbell nebula I posted a week ago which I thought was quite horrible but I wanted to quickly put it up fo Star Wars week and call it a Tie Fighter Flyby Spotted from Peckham :)

 

Yesterday I posted up the M57 Ring Nebula, a a planetary Nebula viewed top down. This is another planetary nebula viewed "side on". We're lucky in London to see the brightest planetary nebulas have such contrasting perspectives.

 

So a planetary nebula are remnant materials shed from a star that came to the end of its main phase of life. In much much larger telescopes, we would see a white dwarf in the centre.

 

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Capture details

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Location: Peckham, London, Living Room window!

 

Telescope: 80mm Equinox APO refractor with a field flattener

Mount: Nexstar 6/8SE Alt Az on a sturdy table.

Camera: Canon 650D unmodded

No filters used

 

Light frames

557 X 5 Sec ( 48 mins)

ISO 1600

32 Dark Frames

 

Stacked with DSS (Deep Sky Stacker). Manually adjusted RGB levels, luminosity and saturation to get as visually appealing image with colour stars before importing into imaging software.

 

Camera Raw: slightly cropped, adjusted black, and curves

 

Photoshop. Violently, clipped dark side information to eliminate colour noise . gradually adjusted levels multiple times to eliminate light pollution, curves to bring out more detail.

 

 

Done