alan4908

2 hours ago, Waiffle said:

awesome picutre! and is that a faint galaxy just at the bottom left of the nebula?

Thanks ! Yes, the very faint galaxy is IC1296, which is about 15th magnitude.

Alan 

2 hours ago, Ruud said:

awesome!

Thanks ! 

Alan

43 minutes ago, rotatux said:

Superb! Still too blue stars in the background, but your balance gives the nebula fantastic colors, very natural.

Thanks for the comment ! 

Alan

35 minutes ago, rl said:

"Attempt" doesn't quite cover it...

Thanks  .....

1 minute ago, Daniel-K said:

another great image Alan

Thanks Daniel 

1 minute ago, Jyllana said:

Thanks for the info!

WOOOW! After looking your setup online. I think you have spent almost or more than $20K... That is a heck of a professional setup. That is why no doubt the images are so nice.

Yes - I have spent quite a bit.... However, I started with something a little cheaper - a SW ED 80 Pro + NEQ6 mount + SX M26C camera with an ST80 for a guide scope and a Lodestar X2 guide camera. Although I decided to go straight into guiding I decided to simplify my entry to astrophography by initially going for colour camera. 

Alan

3 minutes ago, Jyllana said:

Hi Alan,

I am new to this forum and I am at the stage of exploring Astronomy. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of Telescope you are using and setup?

Thanks!

Hello !

At the moment I'm using a SW Esprit 150 on a 10micron GM1000HPS with a SX Trius 814 camera - all controlled by ACP Expert - have a look in my gallery in the album "Automated Observatory" and you'll see some pictures of my set up.

Alan

20 hours ago, benhayes74 said:

Beautiful, i got excited when i first saw it. Looks like a wormhole off interstellar

Thanks for the comment  - I agree it does look a little strange !

15 minutes ago, Hawksmoor said:

A really pretty open cluster. I enjoy observing this from my backyard through my 11x80 binoculars. 

Thanks for posting, regards Georg

Thanks for the comment Georg 

Alan

I'm glad that you like them Daniel 

Thanks for the comment Jesper 

Alan

Thanks John ! 

7 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Well it's a good 'un!

Thanks 

23 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Very good indeed! A bit of RGB for the stellar cores, maybe? You'd need so little.

Olly

Thanks Olly.  

Originally, I was going to replace the NB stars with RGB ones - however, I quite liked the way the starfield turned out, so I decided to leave it as a "pure" NB image.

Alan

25 minutes ago, Hawksmoor said:

Excellent image! Always great to capture a Supernova. One enormous bang!

Thanks !  - yes, my first supernova that I have knowingly captured 

10 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Truly superb to my eye. While the image is admirably deep it still leaves the gasses looking like gasses rather than solids, which easily happens.

Olly

Thanks for the comment Olly. 

2 hours ago, buzz said:

amazing image - the LP around me effectively masks the fainter details, even after 25 hours of exposure.

Thanks

I'm somewhat fortunate that I live in a very low light pollution area, not quite a dark site, but close.  I've also found that my new imaging set up (Esprit 150 on a GM1000HPS) at 0.7 arc seconds/pixel seems to be delivering the detail. I was a little dubious that 0.7 was going to be too low but it seems that the seeing where I image from is a little better than I thought.

Alan

Thanks !

Pieter - thanks !

In addition to the Photoshop's High Pass Filter and Unsharp Mask, this time I applied Pixinsight's HDRMT routine, which is excellent at sharpening images.  

Alan

19 minutes ago, spaceman_spiff said:

Really nice capture Alan. If it's clear on friday I may have a go at this myself!

Dan 

Thanks Dan ! As I type this, I'm surrounded by dense fog, so I cannot even see the clouds.....hopefully this will improve !

Thanks !

Thanks for the comment.  I also like the stars in this image. Alan

Thanks ! 

Thanks for the comment ! 

Thanks for the comments 

Alan