Herbig Haro 555 & friends

[johnrt]

I seem to be missing out on all the fun recently working whenever there has been been clear skies, but last night I got my turn. After a fun evening at the Greenwich Observatory watching "It Came from Outer Space!!" in the planetarium it was time to get home sharpish for some real astronomy. I decided there was too much moonlight about for LRGB work, so gave the 6" RC it's first real workout in narrowband.

My interest in this image is with Herbig–Haro objects, which are small patches of nebulosity associated with newly born stars, and are formed when narrow jets of gas ejected by young stars collide with clouds of gas and dust nearby at speeds of several hundred kilometres per second.

The Pelican Nebula, IC 5070, has perhaps the most famous of these, HH 555, but the image in fact contains several more.

3 hours exposure time in Hydrogen Alpha with an Altair Astro 6" RC & Atik 314l+, processed in Pixinsight & CS5.

I hope you like!

And an annotated version for those who like that sort of thing....

There is technically another HH object in the frame, it is very faint and I have not labelled it as I don't believe I have captured it in this image,

[Mark72]

Came out great, thanks for sharing.

Nice details, smooth image.

Mark

[Gina]

Excellent image - lovely and smooth with nice little stars and good detail

[johnrt]

Thank you both, I've not managed anywhere near as much imaging as I'd like this year, and it's always nice to get out and get a pleasing image for your troubles.

[FranckiM06]

Excellent result with lot of details in there.

Congratulation for your superbe image

Franck

[johnrt]

Thank you Franck.

[Coco]

Very nice indeed.. excellent detail and smooth as you like Superb!

[x6gas]

Really nice work, John.

And thanks for the information on the HH features and for the annotated version - very interesting!

[johnrt]

Thank you both

[peter shah]

Superb image, good of you to point out those regions of interest, This object really is a gem......BTW I love that film too

[fwm891]

Image is superb, and the annotation is really enlightening - thanks

[Lars]

Great image and the info of the HH-objects makes it even more interesting. /Lars

[ollypenrice]

Super. Smooth, sharp and informative.

Olly