The Soap Bubble (PN G75.5+1.7), Cluster IC 4996, The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888)

[Boren]

Guys,

This is first light for the SBIG ST8300 M working with the new filter wheel, shot last week over 3 hours total.

I was quite surprised when I was able to see the Soap Bubble after a mere 80 min. through Ha. At F4 I just could not see it, regardless of how much both Kfir and I have tried last year. It just didn't work.

Even as I was out in the desert imaging it - I have named it in my mind: "The Bubble and the Beast"...

I hope you like the name, the image - and any comments are – as always – very, very welcome.

http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/134657398/original

Cheers,

Harel

[peter shah]

one difficult target...the soap bubble shows up nicely

[ncjunk]

Great image! This deserves a look on the desktop as this damn iphone isn't doing it justice...to the desktop!

[MikeD]

Lovely image, great colour and detail and very nice composition too.

Mike.

[Catanonia]

Really nice image, great colour and structure as usual Boren. Loving your images at the moment.

A little inexperience on my side and a daft question.

Is this the Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 ???? It doesn't look like it, well similar. What signature is given to this DSO ?

Sorry for the daft question.

[johnh]

I can see the Bubble and great to get Crescent in there too, a challenge as its so faint.

John.

[steppenwolf]

Lovely and great to have captured the Soap Bubble too, a very elusive 'beast' indeed.

[brantuk]

Fascinating shot - demonstrates the vastness of space and presence of random dust amidst which something suddenly goes bang and creates an object - lovely capture Harel

[ollypenrice]

Well done. It is a devil of a thing to capture, this one.

Olly

[Boren]

one difficult target...the soap bubble shows up nicely

Thanks Peter - indeed it's a difficult one, and last year I have tried several times to capture it - in vain...

I really leaped in my seat when I saw the first stack come in with the bubble showing

Cheers,

Harel

[Boren]

Great image! This deserves a look on the desktop as this damn iphone isn't doing it justice...to the desktop!

Thanks! I hope the desktop had done it justice too :-)

I actually saw it yesteday on a friend's super monitor - much better than the one I use for processing - and it looked much better. It almost didn't look like mine...

[Boren]

Lovely image, great colour and detail and very nice composition too.

Mike.

Thansk Mike - I'm happy you liked it, and even happier that all the things I was so minded to when processing resonated with you as well. It's really a treat !

Cheers,

Harel

[Boren]

Really nice image, great colour and structure as usual Boren. Loving your images at the moment.

A little inexperience on my side and a daft question.

Is this the Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 ???? It doesn't look like it, well similar. What signature is given to this DSO ?

Sorry for the daft question.

Thanks! I am really happy you liked it!

Indeed this is NGC 6888 - it's just very bright here, since the image goes very deep, and I kind of wanted to achieve an imbalance in the brightness levels, to show how dim the soap bubble is, by letting the crescent be streched quite linearily !

Cheers,

Harel

[Adamski]

Beautiful.

[Boren]

Lovely and great to have captured the Soap Bubble too, a very elusive 'beast' indeed.

Thanks John and Steve,

I am glad you liked it!

Actually, I was thinking about the glowing Crescent as the "beast"

Cheers,

Harel

[prokyon]

Great shot! This object is on my to do list for this summer.

Cheers

Werner

[dc509]

Very nice - a strange beast indeed

d

[keithmrris]

Great pic well done!