Planetary nebulae

Notizen: NGC 1501 I imaged this planetary nebula out of coincidence. I wanted to take a picture of NGC 1514 in Taurus, but remembered it's name falsely, so I was quite confused when my Lx200 slewed to the zenith instead of Taurus. I took a 30 second exposure to see what the scope wanted me to look at and had a nice bright planetary in just 30 seconds. After some 10 minute pictures in the "normal" mode of my MX512 camera I decided that the seeing was good enough to use the highres progressive mode. I did some maximum entropy deconvolution on the nebula only, not on the whole picture, to bring out the (already visible) detail more clearly. I later checked Martin Germano's great picture in "The night sky observer's guide" which confirms that the details aren't artifacts. This is a perfect object for moonlit nights as it is nice bright. Taken from the middle of Berlin with an 8"LX200 at f/4, SXpress MX512 camera, UHC filter for 10x5 minutes.