Melotte 15 in the Heart nebula - hubble palette

[Avdhoeven]

Last night I had the TEC140 running on my EQ6 while I was sleeping. Result 11x1800s S2 data that I could add to my previously gathered data. It took almost two months with the sparse clear nights here, but the result I do like a lot...

Exposures:

9 x 1800s H-alpha (4,5nm – 06/10/2012)

12 x 1800s OIII (3nm – 10/10/2012)

11 x 1800s S2 (5nm – 17/11/2012)

10 x 300s R,G,B (22/10/2012)

(total approx. 17 hours)

SXV-H9 / TEC-140 / NEQ-6 / DMK21-618 OAG

[Velvet]

Very nice do like this one

Velvet

[Gina]

Beautiful

[JamesF]

That's very nice. Very three dimensional.

James

[cstew]

I keep seeing images like this and I'm just stunned that it can be achieved with "backyard" astronomy, I used to think that this sort of imagery was only possible with huge telescopes or hubble, the bad thing is it makes me jealous and tempts me to spend a load of cash and buy a bigger scope, better mounts and a load of imaging equipment!!!

[Jessun]

A great image, and the hours did the trick

[Mav359]

One day......

Top pic well done

[symesie04]

Yep fabulous

[sologuitarist61]

Great image and sharp - lovely

[ultranova]

The picture is dripping wet with quality, made possible by the time put into it

one to hang on the wall me thinks fabulous image well done.

Paul

[Avdhoeven]

I made an image showing the seperate channels. This nicely shows what the different filters deliver:

[MartinB]

Superb, I do love the way dust is rendered by the Hubble palate. Marvellous image

[prokyon]

Wow, stunning!!!! And thanks for showing the channels, very interesting.

[Gina]

Wonderful

[Lars]

The long exposure times and patience really paid off. Great picture. And thanks for displaying the channels.

/Lars

[paraman]

That is just so good, stunning detail.

[Boren]

Just wonderful. Great result !!!

cheers,

Harel

[Bellyeye]

That's an absolutely fabulous image. It's making me want to ditch the DSLR!

[VigdisVZ]

You could sell me that picture as a NASA one. Superb.

[RobH]

Excellent......love the processing and thumbs up for the very subtle diffraction spikes too....they add a certain something

Cheers

Rob

[whooshbang]

And all whilst you were sleeping? Beautiful.

[stellawolf]

Wow that is nice well done

[Yoddha]

Masterpiece! The 3D effect is great

[KevUU]

Holy .....

That's lovely, really nice.

Thanks and well done

[Avdhoeven]

Thanks a lot for all your reactions! I processed the image a bit further. I wonder what you think. Is it better or is it too much? I wonder...