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Hi All, M1 Crab Nebula imaged using narrowband and LRGB filters. I live in an urban area with pretty bad light pollution, so the narrowband filters help with that. Colour assignment is Red - Oiii, Green - Ha, Blue - S2, which seems to give the closest approximation to the HST M1 colour scheme in the...

M97 The Owl Nebula from the heart of England. Despite the prevalent light pollution, long exposures at a long focal length combine to bring details out within the nebula, and also highlight the very faint outer shell. Telescope: C9.25 @ f10 Mount: SKywatcher EQ6 Camera: Atik 428ex (binned 2x2) Filte...

With the significant light pollution in the centre of the UK, deep sky photography isn't always rewarding, but these recent images from my little home observatory were quite pleasing. Thanks for looking. Tim http://www.btinternet.com/~mr.squeegee/Astro/M13-2011-small.jpg Full size version here : htt...