peter shah

Sooo deep Richard...nice work

Beautiful image ...nice and deep

beautiful set of images despite the bad weather

2 minutes ago, Magnum said:

Thanks Peter, I just wish I could get a clear night to grab the Oiii to finish it. Ive only had 1 crystal clear night in Kent in month and months. 

Lee

yes I know that frustration really well..... and it just skips high enough to get anything. All that crud you are having to look through really make it a challenge.....not easy to do....you make it look effortless 

Gorgeous!!....deep  and full of detail 

15 minutes ago, glafnazur said:

Just viewed this on a larger monitor and it looks way better than on on my laptop. I'd agree that is one of the best, if not the best, Elephant's Trunk I've seen. Would you mind if i downloaded a copy for my desktop background?

thank you....no go a head 

7 minutes ago, Rodd said:

Thanks Peter. I do wish I had a 6200 series camera for this scope. If I did, I probably would not be so eager to switch if out

Nah this is the perfect FOV in my opinion....I'm actually capturing almost the identical field as this atm

Ooo nice FOV....lovely detail Rodd

7 minutes ago, old_eyes said:

Wow Peter! That is the best Elephant's Trunk I have ever seen!

Did you use software binning on the M16 dataset as well?

Thank you Richard...

No didnt use it on M16 there was so much signal in that there was no need

1 minute ago, simmo39 said:

Stunning! A lot of detail for so little time!

Yes surprising only 40mins in each channel per panel...I was working on software binning for this over the weekend....as its imaging way over sampled ....massive benefits with no loss of resolution  

13 minutes ago, AstroMuni said:

Wow @peter shah amazing colours. You have made the elephant look like a mackaw 🙂

Thank you.... 

7 minutes ago, The60mmKid said:

This is awe-inspiring. I love those touches of blue amidst all of the red and violet.

Thank you.....I thought they were gradients at first and tried removing them 😆 but soon realised they are real....all be it pushed to show the colour

40 minutes ago, WolfieGlos said:

Wow, great image Peter and great star colour!

I've yet to image this one, but I'm curious what the object is in the centre of the ring in the cropped version? I don't think I've seen it so close up before.

Thank you ChrisI have no idea...it would be interesting to find out

33 minutes ago, glafnazur said:

wow that's quite spectacular Peter. The colours are amazing. 👍

It was surprising how much colour I was able to pull out

3 minutes ago, Magnum said:

yes great range of colours Peter

Lee

Thanks Lee... what was astonishing to me was the amount of signal in effectively a 40min exposure 

Beautiful shot...so much Ha showing

I've been working on this the whole weekend, I just love the range of colour in this object. A three panel mosaic of IC1396 The Elephant Trunk Nebula.  Imaged with the 16in ODK and ASI2600 remotely from Spain.........Imaged at 1x1 software binned 2x2...exposure time was only 40mins in each RGB channel for each panel, all 60s unguided on The DDM85.
Thanks for looking
Peter Shah

Puts it in perspective......nice shot showing the outer layers really well

mighty wide and mighty deep....lovely image

Not too shabby Steve.....lovely star colour

beautiful!!

lovely image...

Its a bright object, but provided you haven't saturated the exposures, which I doubt you have, you can control the core brightness when doing your levels and curves....masks are also useful when combining the faint stuff

nicely done ...love the star colour

Holy smokes Olly, that's a lot of panels!!! So much to see in the bigger one  worth taking a good look at its lovely.... another triumph Olly!!

nicely done....very deep

9 hours ago, WolfieGlos said:

Stunning in RGB! 

Thank you...I'm collecting some narrow band data at the moment also...but I do love it in RGB

2 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

Lovely detail. Oh for clear and transparent skies !

Thank you.....the seeing has been really nice recently in Spain which really helped with this.

34 minutes ago, fwm891 said:

I take it we’re not talking Powys UK! Because Hereford hasn’t seen sky for ages…

We have had a few clear skies here in Powys but I need to swap out my UPS in the garden observatory.... the thing is there's no rush as I have the luxury of a few other scopes to use. 

so much going on it that...lovely image Alan