What seems like an eternity

[Beyond_Vision]

It's been a really bad year for me so far with the last decent image being last October. With the weather and kit problems conspiring against me I have nearly thrown in the towel.

Last night I had a near perfect session and managed to grab some RGB data of the nebulosity around Sadr and added this to some Ha data grabbed last November.

The following image was taken in two sessions

Ha data was 19 x 10 mins
RGB 12 x 10 mins

Stacked with DSS and processed with Pix Insight, PSCS3 and Registar.

Great to get something done to recharge my astro batteries . Shame about the halo around Sadr though



Regards

Kevin

[MikeD]

And very nice result to come back with it is too,

loadsa nice detail.

Mike.

[Paxo]

Good to see you back imaging again Kevin, you must be looking forward to the longer nights.

Steve

[peter shah]

great stuff kevin......

[ollypenrice]

It's a good comeback.

Where do the haloes come from, the Ha? What filter?

Olly

[mark7331]

Fantastic Kevin. I know what you mean though. Winter has been very frustrating but what a result. Well worth the wait.

Mark

[brantuk]

I wouldn't know about the halo - but the picture is very immersive - has a terrific "feel" that makes one want to stare at it for ages - nice one Kevin

[steppenwolf]

Well captured, Kevin, I'm pleased to see you back in there imaging and it was certainly worthwhile!

[Beyond_Vision]

It's a good comeback.

Where do the haloes come from, the Ha? What filter?

Olly

The Halo is on both the Ha image and RGB. The Ha image was taken with a Baader 7nm filter and a UV/IR cut filter on the CCD which is left in place to stop dust entering the CCD. The RGB image was taken with a Neodymium light pollution filter and the UV/IR cut filter in place.

Thanks for the nice comments too

Regards

Kevin

[Psychobilly]

Glad you got out

Cygnus is about the only thing that will keep me out of bed at the moment...

Peter...

[Beyond_Vision]

Glad you got out

Cygnus is about the only thing that will keep me out of bed at the moment...

Peter...

Yep I can't wait for the nights to draw in

Regards

Kevin

[dc509]

Lovely image - so much detail,

d

[RobH]

Well done Kevin....you've had even worse luck than me when it comes to getting images recently!!

Nice result, and a great relief I would imagine

Rob

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks Rob

Regards

Kevin

[twotter]

There's just so much going on there I hardly know where to start looking first...but what a cracking image!

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks twotter

Regards

Kevin

[Tim]

Finally Kev! Was beginning to think you were going soft!

Nice result, halo or not

Tim

[R Fisher]

Nice image, star colours looking very natural, I usually image this area Narrow band and miss this detail.

[Adz]

Kev there is so much going on in and around those clouds, well done. I am enjoying Cygnus so much now

[Catanonia]

good to get back in the saddle so to say.

Great image, have you tried to PS out the halo ?

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks guys

Cat, I had an initial stab at trying to get rid of it but wasn't happy so left it in

Regards

Kevin

[saturn5]

Nice to see you back posting again Kevin,great result and i dont think the halo adds a negative to the shot,infact i quite like it,purely from an artisitic point of view.

And like yourself,cant wait for the nights to draw in.I hate summer:evil6:

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks Stewart

Regards

Kevin

[Andrewsean1985]

Beautiful! Very impressed to the amount of detail that has come out of the image! Well done :-)

[daz]

I know your feelings Kev!

I keep wondering what the green shed is at the bottom of the garden....!

Corking piccy!!