Back in 2005 I could image only a small portion of the Pelican. I rotated the "snake" area, and it became a "volcano" to my eyes. I even colored the Ha image orange in a bit of artistic whimsy:

Your Snake/Fish came out nicely resolved. Was that taken at Barcroft? “Corrected” by my iPhone

The date on mine is 2006 “Corrected” by my iPhone

Likewise I’d never seen the twister but now I can’t unsee it! “Corrected” by my iPhone

I did a quick blink between you image and mine and could not see anything obvious. Rolando

sweet. I imaged it 15 years ago (prehistoric ccd imaging), http://www.astrosurf.com/benoit/elephant.htm Would be interesting to see if there are any changes visible. -- benoit groups.io

I have actually smelled it in the air. It smells like someone smoking an old cigar. Rolando

Never saw it that way, but indeed you are right. I always saw it as a long arm with a hammer on the end. Rolando

Thanks, Pete. Only way is narrowband around here. The main purpose of my doing imaging is to develop best practices using encoder mounts, not so much in trying to achieve anything monumental (not

Satellite views show the smoke from Northern Calif. circling around the high pressure and blowing east. I would be surprised if the Calif. fires do not affect transparency in Illinois. In the

Very nice! That HHH555 “tornado forming”, if rotated 180 degrees, always reminded me of a snake that just nabbed a fish The stars at the head end of the captured fish: the poor thing’s oeyeballs

Wonderful images Roland! Great view of Herbig-Haro object 555 (HH555). Once again making lemonade from lemons... 😉 Pete

Not bad for the conditions. One thing tho, that haze is covering us In Colorado, too. It's from the fires in California. We, fortunately, remain below kindling. Phillip

hello Astronuts, I did some imaging of the Pelican in extremely poor transparency over the last couple of nights. The seeing was exceptional the first night and very good the next two. transparency

Thank you. We've had a run of really terrible seeing lately (so. Calif.). I've been in communication with Howard over the performance of my Mach1, and I won't bother you with that. But I've

The Mach2 you guys made for me is super! Absolutely love it. :-) -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery - http://astrophoto.net/wp/image-gallery/ Astrobin -

Super! Rolando

Bill ... I'm building a 130EDFGT / Quad TCC / IMX455 imaging train now. Do you attribute the extra 2.3mm to the additional optical distance from a nice ~3mm thick filter element between your sensor

Hi Curtis, Stellar scintillation is always present to some degree. The primary purpose of PEMPro is to create a PEC curve based on data captured over multiple worm cycles, so it is very resistant to

Well done, Dean! That’s a beauty. Karen AP