Allinthehead

On 14/11/2021 at 13:51, wimvb said:

Jurassic park was hardly a documentary. Pretty impressive CG effects though, at the time.

So this diving Bronto would be more accurate? Or didn't they swim at all? At least the image has correct orientation.

Gravity is his friend here😁. Regardless of whether he's grazing trees or diving it's a great image, time well spent.

Amazing what you can do with a colour camera from bortle 8.

This image has me looking at this nebula in a totally new light, beautifully done. I like how you didn't completely zap all the green too, it allows some subtle but very pleasing transitions in the colour tones. Detail is spectacular too. 

That's a great image Emil, I really like the nebulosity at the top, looks like it's bursting with energy.

1 hour ago, ollypenrice said:

New to me, too, and I love it. Tremendous sense of depth and nice to see dust combined with reflection nebulosity. Processing is bang on the money.  

Olly

Thanks Olly, well worth trying with the Rasa. I seem to remember Goran posting a lovely image of this nebula.

6 hours ago, bob-c said:

A great looking image this.

 

Bob.

Thanks Bob.

4 hours ago, MartinB said:

A wonderful dusty image.  What a great name as well!

Thanks Martin. I also had it pointed out to me that it looks like a one armed cosmic shrug😃

26 minutes ago, Stuf1978 said:

Just beautiful 😍

Thanks, glad you think so.

18 minutes ago, Phillyo said:

This is so beautiful. It has a real sense of depth to it like you can fall into the image or really get a sense of a 3D environment. Absolutely love it!

Very nice of you to say Phillyo👍

34 minutes ago, carastro said:

Excellent result Richard, 

Now where can I find some dark skies to do this target.  🤣

Carole 

Thanks Carole, I'm very lucky to have decent dark sky out the back, as long as the neighbours remember to turn off the lights.

Very nice, I've wanted to image this region for a quite a while. Envious of your FOV.

You've gone deep on that Olly, nice to see some dust in there too.

Very nice indeed.

Lovely Tadpoles Carole, nice subtle colours.

Very nice, looks like you had a productive night.

8 hours ago, peter shah said:

that is just outstanding...I love this object 

Thanks Peter, it's a great target.

5 hours ago, Tim said:

Wow, that is stunning!  Can I ask, what were your skies like for this image?

Tim

Thank you Tim. Sky is bortle 4 according to Clearoutside.

5 hours ago, Knight of Clear Skies said:

Great image, and not a target I was familiar with.

Thanks very much👍

Would work well at a longer focal length too.

https://www.astrobin.com/full/wejwlj/0/

19 hours ago, Rodd said:

Wow.  This is stunning. I have never seen this one.  In Cassiopeia too. I guess wide field is the way to go. I’ll have to wait until I get my refractors on the mount

Thanks Rodd, It's well worth the effort.

6 hours ago, MarsG76 said:

What an awesome image and object... well done.

Thanks Mars. 

5 hours ago, ItsmeMaw said:

Excellent image! This is another object I would have never even knew existed if it wasnt for the members of this great forum!

Thanks!

👍

13 hours ago, Padraic M said:

Beautiful image Richard. I saw and enjoyed the early draft version but the extra data does make a difference. A friendly subject nicely presented, and good choice of composition too!

Thanks Padraic, much appreciated.

5 hours ago, GalaxyGael said:

Beautiful Richard, another interesting region high in the sky. Longer integration time was the key you think?

Thanks, yes I would usually be between 5-9 hrs but this definitely needed the extra few.

5 hours ago, Paul1 said:

👍👍👍

👍

3 hours ago, mackiedlm said:

That's a wonderful image. I've never seen that target before. Stunning.

 

Thank you, I'm surprised so many have not seen this before, always nice to see something new.

18 hours ago, Mr Thingy said:

Really nice image. So interesting and very well taken.

Thanks, glad you found it interesting.

14 hours ago, Xiga said:

Beautiful work, as always Richard. Has an almost ethereal look about it. 

I don't recall ever seeing an image of this before, so always nice to see something new as well. 

Thanks Ciarán, happy to show you something new.

14 hours ago, AL1 said:

Beautiful image.

👍

14 hours ago, scotty38 said:

A wonderful image!

Thank you Scotty

33 minutes ago, AbsolutelyN said:

Just saw this on astrobin too - it's an absolutely stunning and inspirational image Richard.  

😀 Well that's a lovely comment to read, thank you very much.

This is the Helping Hand Nebula in Cassiopeia.

The blue reflection is as a result of the cepheid variable star SU Cassiopeia. Vdb 7,8 and 9 are present in this image as well as Ldn 1353, 1355 and 1358.

Extremely feint nebula with loads of stars in the field made this a challenging target, gathering lots of data was the only option. I think this might be the longest I stayed on a single panel target.

12 hrs in 120 second subs at gain 100 with the Asi 2600mc through a Takahashi Epsilon 160ed. Data acquired over 4 nights.

Mounted on an AzEq6

Stacked in APP

Processed in APP, PI and PS

 Hope you enjoy,

Richard.

Lovely detail in the Galaxy, super.

5 hours ago, GalaxyGael said:

Lovely image Richard, these mixed nebulosity areas of sky are indeed overlooked in the main, and ideal for natural RGB colorspace. Fair play on sticking with the same target to complete it, clear and crisp.

Thanks Colm, it was worth the effort. I'm going for 15 hours at F/3.3 for the next one, hopefully I can stick with it.

46 minutes ago, apaulo said:

amazing piece of work, astounding. 

Thanks, very nice of you to say.

26 minutes ago, TakMan said:

That’s lovely, colours and composition. The icy blues with the rust red really make it.

Can I ask, what are your skies like (Bortle), etc and do you use a LP filter in the imaging train…?

D

Thanks, Bortle 4 according to clearoutside. Some areas of the sky are better than others as I live in a housing estate with public lights but I don't use a light pollution as it gives me more headaches in terms of colour balance.