NGC1333 region

[Mike Hawtin]

It's cold, wet and miserable here today so I had a go at reprocessing data I took in January to pass the time, my first efforts at the start of the year were stretched much too far and looked very noisy.  This one is processed as a LLRGB image in an attempt to smooth things out a bit, it's more dark and moody though still a bit noisy even so.  Taken through a C6 Hyperstar with an Atik 428EX, 30 x 300 sec luminance, 12 x 320 sec blue, 12 x 350 sec red and 12 x 300 sec green for a total of 5.7 hours, I hope you like it.

[morimarty]

What a fantastic image Mike. the colours are just sublime!

[Fay]

Great image Mike!

Fay

[iksose7]

Very nice Mike, i have around 9 hours on this i need to get around to processing, hope it turns out as nice as this!

Callum

[tingting44]

wow a hell of a lot going on in there! liking it

[Mike Hawtin]

Blimey, cheers chaps and chapess of course!

[Adamar98]

That is beautiful. Just look at all that dust! It's a corker!

[swag72]

Blimey Mike, that IS a stunner. Great on all counts

[kirkster501]

Fab!

[Mike Hawtin]

Thank you all for your very kind comments, despite the poor data in the blue channel I'm pretty pleased with the way this turned out, but, and there's always a "but" isn't there?  I really need to get to grips with PI's noise reduction tools.

Thanks again.

[Uranium235]

Impressive   

Mosaic? Go on... you know you want to

[Astroscot2]

 A belter, like I said on another thread once of my favorite areas of sky.

Mark

[Mike Hawtin]

Impressive   

Mosaic? Go on... you know you want to

Perhaps I will, I often do mosaics with the Hyperstar and this would make a very nice wide field subject.

 A belter, like I said on another thread once of my favorite areas of sky.

Mark

Thanks Mark, yes there sure is plenty going on in this part of the sky.

Mike

[Macavity]

You know you're a nerd, when you recognise NGC numbers?

Seemingly one of the "O'Meara objects". Great stuff!

So many objects, so little time...

[Gina]

Great