Iris and the dark side

[stephane zoll]

Hello,

Here is a 2.2° wide field around the Iris nebula. This field includes vdB141 and some other dust clouds almost everywhere.

This photograph has been acquired in the french Alps, near the Col du Lautaret (famous for the Tour de France ), at 2000m elevation, which allowed me to get a deep image.

=> Taka. FSQ106 f/d=3.6

=> Astrodon LRGB filters

=> CCD Atik 4000 (-20°C).

=> L: 15 min subs - total 2h.

=> RGB: 5 min subs (bin1) ; total 60min for each color.

Treatment with PixInsight.

All the best,

stephane

[Stargazer Jack]

Amazing inage

[Fay]

Gosh! Beat that!

Fay

[Spikey]

That is very nice Stephane.

[ultranova]

That is a beautiful image, best I have ever seen in that area of the sky

I take my hat of to you sir.

Paul

[SJJ]

Wow.

[Gina]

WOW!!! That's incredible!

[farunj]

Absolutely stunning!! Wow!!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Stunning. It has a real depth of field to it.

[stephane zoll]

Thank you for your replies !

The quality of the sky there helps really a lot. Keep in mind that all the signal for the depth of the image comes only from the luminance shots, i.e. 2h only here.

Cheers,

Stephane

[ollypenrice]

Hi Stephane, I cycled up the Lautaret (only just!!) a few weeks ago. I wonder if you were hiding somewhere.

Excellent image and really great to see the Ghost and Iris together in a widefield.

What about the lights from Briancon?

Olly

[paul schofield]

A real spacewalk image there I think, brilliant, well done.

[stephane zoll]

Hi Olly,

I was in this area in July, around the 20th. No biking, but hiking...

No real pollution from Briançon where I was, west side of the Col. Briancon is hidden by significant mountains and is not such a big city. The only pollution comes from the cars passing all the night on the road !

Thanks Paul !

Stephane