Open Cluster Melotte 15

[dsoman]

Melotte 15 is an open cluster in IC1805 [Heart Nebula], 7500 ly away from Earth and located in the Perseus spiral arm of our galaxy.

This shot is composed of 30 - 300 second exposures.

http://tinyurl.com/y8u93aa

Meade SN10 [10" - f/4] on an Atlas EQ-G.
Camera: QHY8 single shot color with MPCC.
Guiding: Orion ST80, DSI & PHD.
Captured with Nebulosity.
Stacked with DSS and processed in Photoshop.
Seeing/transparency 7/7.

Brent

[trevorw]

Very nice I like this nebula

[Radar]

Awesome colours for a OSC camera. What is your light pollution like?

Ray

[dsoman]

Thanks Ray & Trevor.

Light pollution???

My wife & I are very fortunate to live out in the country on the top of a hill far away from city lights. The night sky is about as dark as it gets. I can follow the Milky Way from horizon to horizon. After living in Silicon Valley for 40 years [where even seeing Jupiter was a challenge] this place is an astrophotographers dream.

Brent

[poppasmurf]

Very nice Brent, as with Trevors pic, a target I am yet to view. Good luck to you also for POM. Pics like this one of yours only strengthens my resolve to get a QHY8.
Regards poppasmurf AKA Shane

[seeker372011]

nice image but seems just a tad noisy compared to the fine images you have been posting

edit

30 x 5 minutes-maybe its not noise..maybe just stretched a bit more than usual to extract all that nebulosity?

[dsoman]

Thanks,

It is stretched allot. I will redo it some day and try some longer exposures and more frames.

Brent