First time at this, and I shot it within a bit of spare time tonight after trying to image the Horsehead nebula (more on that later!)
You can clearly see the NGC2437 planetary nebula here. Not too bad!
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes 80mm ED Refractor
- Imaging Camera: Nikon D7000
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval Refractor
- Guiding Camera: Meade DSI-C
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Exposures: 3 * 5 minute lights
- ISO 400
- Aligned and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Post-Processing in GIMP (contrast, saturation and unsharp mask)