Crescent to Tulip in one night

[martin_h]

4 panels of 1 hour each to make this mosaic, I will be going back and adding to this as time goes on.

[Andrew*]

This is a superb picture in its own right, but if you're adding to it I can't wait to see how it progresses! Are you going to extend the field, or add colour (or both!)? I'm dying to see more above left....

Is that Sharpless 104 on the left edge? Does it have a descriptive name as well?

Which scope/flattener are you using?

Andrew

[James]

Be careful Martin - with that area of the sky the temptation must be to keep on going - before you know it you'll have covered half the milky way

James

[Martin-Devon]

Lovely widefield - is this in luminence or H-alpha though?

[martin_h]

Shot with the WO ZS71 with reducer/flattener in Ha.

Yes that is SH2-104 on the left edge. And upper left and beyond is the Butterfly Neb and the star Sadr.

[martin_h]

The original version looks a bit clipped in my browser, so here is version 2.............

[swag72]

So much to look at Martin, you've done a great job of this area!

[Andrew*]

And I thought you got deep with the first version!!

[Mark72]

Yes, great work, second one even better.

So much recognizable here.

Mark

[Tom OD]

Lovely pic, looking forward to seeing it expanded too.

[symesie04]

That is breath taking. Incredible detail. You can see why they call it the Tulip nebula, however they should rename Crescent to The Fly Head nebual

[fwm891]

Superb detail Martin - version 2 for me

[peter shah]

wow super wide, its amazing how much is going on in this part of the sky

[AndyUK]

I can only reiterate he the comments above - Wow! As James has said, that must be SO difficult not getting dragged in to cover more of this region... and as Andrew noted, that top left looks a VERY tempting to move on to !

[martin_h]

I can only reiterate he the comments above - Wow! As James has said, that must be SO difficult not getting dragged in to cover more of this region... and as Andrew noted, that top left looks a VERY tempting to move on to !

Your wish is my command..............

[AndyUK]

... Can I vote you maybe add the section a bit further to the top left next time? . Looks like a never ending project to me!

Whenever I show these types of images to non-astro friends, they're always totally stunned that this is all "up there" in what they perceive only as a "black sky with a few stars dotted about"...

[symesie04]

Now your just showing off Fantastic stuff. Just trying to figure out exactly where cygnus actually sits in these images.

[martin_h]

The circled star is Sadr

[Black Knight]

That is amazing Martin. That ZS71 really looks the business.

[symesie04]

Ah your a gentleman and a scholar sir.

[Beulah]

Astonishing!

Despite the subsequent images being more contrasty, I like the delicate texture of image one and how it looks on my monitor.

[Gina]

WOW! That's fantastic