Iris Nebula

[psemil]

I wanted to take a wider field of view but unfortunately I had to crop a lot because I was not careful enough when framing. This was imaged in for nights with lot of problems : clouds, dew, high winds, and I was very close of a car accident...

Link on astrobin - http://astrob.in/51762/

[Mark72]

Nice image, great colours. hope no accidents in the future.

Mark

[Fay]

A very nice Iris, lovely detail & colour & processing

Fay

[StuartJPP]

A great result despite your problems though!

[psemil]

Thank you, Fay, Mark, Stuart.

I forgot to say that half of the imaging time is at high altitude over 1700m, and reaching the imaging site by car is not always an easy feat.

If anyone wants to process the image here is the stack already color corrected and neutralized background.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67109489/Iris%207h%2045'%20start.tif

[Gina]

Excellent Iris - lovely

[iksose7]

Great job, lovely star colours around the neb too

[psemil]

Thank you Gina, Callum.

The resembelance with a flower makes it one of my favourite. Star color is always verry hard to ehance. Usualy when processing an image I end up with good nebulosity an bad star color. So I have to restart to process the star to their right color.

[Quatermass]

Worth all the hard work lovely image

cloud cloud go away come again another day

[psemil]

Thanks Quatermass