Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

I have a history of this particular target. Many years ago when I was about 12 years old, I saw a black and white astrophotograph of this image in a local library. This image at that time was named Madonna and Child instead of the current Cone Nebula. I was so enthralled with this image that it was the impetus for my love of Astronomy. As I have stated, I have an obsession for this target and I finally got it. It could be better and I am all ears to better the image quality, but not with expensive post-processing software that the learning curves are almost vertical. Lets keep it simple and away from Pixinsight or Photoshop. I have Gimp and Lightroom to play with. Now the geeky stuff:
Mount - Ioptron CEM 40
Camera - ZWO 071 MC Pro Cooled Color camera
Guide camera - ZWO 120 MC using a 9 x 50 mm guide scope
Main scope - Ioptron 8 inch RC reflector
26 exposures at 6 minute duration.
Stacked in DSS with no calibration images
All this was controlled by a ASIAIR Plus Little Red Box (highly recommended).

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fotojeff

Awesome

PoppieJ Loc: North Georgia

congratulations on finally grabbing this shot

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

thanks all

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Congrats on catching the cone nebula. I would recommend capturing more subs to help remove noise.
I've found that it takes many hours of subs (ususally over multiple nights) to really get noise down.
I've taken shots of this object using a 500mm telephoto lens to include the Christmas tree cluster.
(See https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-727718-1.html for details).

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

thank you for the advice I know i need more subs, but time was not on my side. RFB