A decent try at this nebula which has a large range of brightness, from gigantic Zeta Orionis to the wispy details of the back-lit cloud.
It’s amazing to me when I look back at the gear I was using and the results I was getting with my first few astrophotos.
Film shot from the backyard in Brentwood.
2 frames of 30min each on E200.
The Eagle Nebula in Serpens, M16
Film: E200
Camera: K-1000
Lens: ED80 (600mm f/7.5), prime focus
Guiding: ST-4
Exposure: 15min
Date: September 9, 2004
The birth of a nemesis. NGC7000 is so big and relatively dim that it’s a challenge to pick up the whole nebula in one shot. This is a full 35mm frame, carefully aimed and rotated so that the nebula would be framed properly. After all of that, this late in the season, the object nears zenith early in the evening, and so all I got was a single 15min frame before the mount went berserk.
I didn’t get back to NGC 7000 for five years.
Another treatment of the same data (Reprocessed March 18,2005):
Film: E200
Camera: K-1000
Lens: ED80 (600mm f/7.5), prime focus
Guiding: ST-4
Exposure: stack of 11 images, 7×20min, 4×45min
Date: September 9, 2004
Film: E200
Camera: K-1000
Lens: ED80 (600mm f/7.5), prime focus
Guiding: ST-4
Exposure: 12min
Date: September 12, 2004
Object was setting over the top of the house as I shot. This was all I could salvage.