Boren

Hi Olly, thanks so much and thank you for looking!

Yes I think you are right, All too many M33‘s are painted neon blue :-)) as you can see I’m treating these gems very very seriously. I’ve come to the conclusion that people start with imaging aiming their scopes and cameras at the known objects and then when up in the learning curve, they never return to those objects in favor of the “difficult” ones.
 

The state of affairs is that for that the known objects are lacking good professional renditions. I decided to change that, and return to each of them solemnly treating them as if they were truly and indeed “difficult”. And guess what? They are (if you want it really bring them out in their full glory, that is).

Thus I gave M33 36 hours and two months of processing, seeking to make it a loyal representation of the data, in color and detail, carefully “under processing” it at every step of the way. 
 

Warm wishes,

Harel

It’s taken a long long time since my last image... life is tough and only 24 hours in a day. 
 

Here’s a rerun of an old gem - but this time done after 12 years of learning curve climbed. I like this result more than any other I’ve done. I hope you’ll like it too:

The image with explanations:

https://pbase.com/boren/image/170428062
 

The image with annotations:

https://pbase.com/boren/image/170428741

and check out all those tiny little galaxies throughout the image and through the galaxy’s arms.

Cheers,

Harel

On 04/11/2019 at 10:35, ollypenrice said:

That's perfect.

Well it just is!

Olly

Thank you Olly, thank you guys. Appreciate a warm nod from you all  cheers, Harel

On 04/11/2019 at 00:01, carastro said:

Fantastic image Harel.  this is on my TO DO list too, but I am not sure how it will come out in a LP location, and getting to a dark location is not so easy in the winter months.

40+ hours and it shows. 

Carole 

Thank you much Carole. Yes it’s a very difficult object from a LP location.  But it says up till early spring. 
 

cheers,

Harel

You know the feeling - an Object you’ve been craving to image for many years, and one day it happens. I’ve imaged this many years ago, before a steep climb on the astrophotographers’ learning curve.

I have thoroughly enjoyed imaging and processing this mysterious man in the sky. I hope you like it too. 

https://pbase.com/boren/image/169640454/original

The Ha only version is found here: https://pbase.com/boren/image/169242008/original

Cheers,
Harel 

It was worth every minute under the skies. Such a captivating vista. Lovely work!

An absolutely lovely bubble. Very well done Olly.