The Heart Nebula, tricolor Narrow Band: First post on SGL

[bluedandelion]

Hi All,

My first image post on SGL. I live in Western Washington State in the US close to Seattle. Weather here is similar to London. This was imaged from my red zone backyard.

Larger version on Flickr

S-II       :  30x15 mins with a Baader 8 nm filter, mapped to Red
H-alpha: 26x 15 mins with a Baader 7nm filter, mapped to Green
OIII       : 28x15 mins with a Baader 8.5 nm filter, mapped to Blue
That's a total of 21 hours.
 
Telescope: APM80/500, f/6.25, Flattener: Stellarvue Sff7-21

Mount: EQ6, EQMOD, SGPro 2.3, PHD2

Camera: Atik 383L+, EFW2 and OAG3; Lodestar for guiding

Processed with: Pixinsight 2.8

Thanks for looking.

Ajay

[baggywrinkle]

That is quite stunning...

[swag72]

Very nice indeed - Welcome to SGL, a stonking opening post

[Stargazer33]

That is amazingly sharp. Lovely image. Welcome to SGL.

[bluedandelion]

Thank you Baggywrinkle, Sarah and Bryan.

Sarah, I've been following your work on Flickr. Inspirational work.

Ajay

[Ruud]

Fantastic!

[johnrt]

Ajay! What a way to introduce yourself! Lovely image. Looking forward to seeing many more.

[ollypenrice]

Very attractive image with a great dynamic range, the faint stuff being allowed to take a decent share of the stage.

Olly

[tony210]

Beautiful detailed image with great dynamic range! Best wishes Tony.

[bluedandelion]

Thank you Ruud, John, Olly and Tony for your comments. Also thanks for all the "likes".

Ajay

[bluedandelion]

Replaced image with a version with reduced stars. So link to large versionon flickr is now broken.

Here's the new ink to large version on flickr.

Ajay

[Pat mcevoy]

Fantastic image

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[lensman57]

Excellent opening post, look forward to seeing more from you.

A.G

[bluedandelion]

Fantastic image

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Thank you Pat

[bluedandelion]

Excellent opening post, look forward to seeing more from you.

A.G

Thank you A.G.  I like your DSLR image of M31 on Astrobin. Really well done.

Ajay

[Barry-Wilson]

Lovely Heart Ajay - superb first post and I look forward to seeing more of your images.

Welcome to SGL.

Barry

[Gina]

Definitely   Very nice image indeed   Welcome to SGL - great entrance

[sloz1664]

Welcome, welcome, welcome. That's what I call an entrance. Stunning....

Steve

[bluedandelion]

Thank you Barry, Gina and Steve. Appreciate your comments and your warm welcome.

Ajay

[Mr Bergman]

Great image!

[bluedandelion]

Great image!

Thank you.

Ajay

[Fay]

Great picture Ajay

Fay 

[bluedandelion]

Thank you, Fay. Appreciate it.

Ajay