SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula

[MartinB]

I wasn't familiar with this nebula until one or two images were posted on SGL.  It's pretty faint!  It's about 8 000 light years distant in Cygnus and the emissions are powered by ultraviolet light from the star at the edge of the blue OIII region.

Captured over several nights in August.

Scope: SW MN190

Camera: QSI 532 wsg

Filters: Baader 7nm Ha OIII and SII mapped to hubble palate

Ha 18x1800 secs  OIII and SII both 12x1800 secs

Captured, calibrated and combined in Maxim.  Deconvolved in CCDSharp and finished in PS

[JohnC64]

oooh thats rather nice. those 1800s subs definitely pull in the detail.

John

[markcol]

Very nice rendering with super structure in the nebula, Martin. Obviously a well collimated MN190!

[Colsey]

Cracking work.

[Tom OD]

Sharp and lots of details. Great pic.

[ollypenrice]

Yes indeed. This is a crop?

Olly

[swag72]

This was so on my list with my long focal length - I think it looks superb!!! Love it!!!

[MartinB]

Thanks a lot everyone.  It's not a crop Olly apart from a little trimming at the edges, could have done with a bit more looking at that left hand edge!  I processed it for forum display and applied more sharpening I would have done for a full resolution image, possibly a bit over cooked but I quite like sharp esp with narrow band.

It was your image that got me alerted to the nebula Sara 

[johnrt]

That's a cracker Martin, really good. Great colours. 

[x6gas]

Hats off Martin - that's an absolute cracker.

I was thinking of going after this one too... Think I'll let some water go under the bridge before I do now :-)

(edit Hat's -> Hats... hopefully before Olly notices)

[lensman57]

There are at times a few images that can be considered inspirational. Recently Sara's image of NGC 6820 was one. This capture ranks amongst them. Very well done.

Regards,

A.G

[MartinB]

Thanks everyone for the encouraging comments.  Got to sort out the next target now

[gingergeek]

Nice work Martin

[Sandancer10]

Very good capture and imaging Martin. Well done.

[siren]

Wow. For a beginner this really inspirational.

[NOMH]

Great work, Martin. Really nice field of view.

JB

[Quatermass]

Super image love the colours

[andrewluck]

You've also got an image of the radio source Cygnus X-1 here. It's the smaller of the pair of stars, lower right in the image. Can't quite make out the accretion disk of the black hole .