As I mentioned before, several "mistrials" on some challenging targets really shows how great some images here on Astrobin are. And Marcel's images are surely on the top of the line! And so I thought, would be great to have one of his new discoveries in my collection, not expecting that I could get even close to his, but I would have been already more than happy to have 10% of it. Did not expect that it ended up with less than 1% (if I am gracious with my trial 😊). So I chose the Goblet of Fire (StDr56), what a mind blowing image from Marcel and Robert (
https://www.astrobin.com/s9vmx1/).
And here is my "starfield" of the same area. I did not process it in any form, just took the stacked image of approximately 7 hours of 5 minute exposures and stretched it with STF.
I know that 7 hours are not necessarily a lot when it comes to faint objects like this, but usually one can see at least a hint, especially with Hα narrow band. I am honest, I do not see anything. So the questions is: will I spend another at least 7 night of clear skies on it, or shall I just accept the fact that there are some limits. I decided for the latter, we did and do not have many clear nights, and "sacrificing" those valuable times seems to be not the way to go.
* This image was not submitted for IOTD consideration
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