New Squid for old Bat...

[ollypenrice]

Tom, Yves and I are collaborating on a big project involving a wider field than shown here. We have Yves' H36 loaded into my FSQ106 while Tom's Atik 11000 is in his FSQ106 on the tandem Mesu. We still have a lot of nights to go but I took the O111 from the H36 (9 hours in 30 minute subs) and wrung its neck before combining it with an earlier Atik 4000/Baby Q image of Sh2-129 in HaRGB. The O111, of course, reveals the Squid Nebula, a bipolar planetary discovered fairly recently by Nicolas Outters. 

While we are still collecting more data I had a play to see what I could make of the elusive Squid, which really is a faint devil!

With Squid,

and without...

As I say, this is just a play to see if we are getting anywhere with the blessèd thing!

Olly

[oldpink]

certainly looks like your onto a winner
the Squid looks lovely so far, I look forward to seeing the finished image

[swag72]

A real cracker that Olly even if you had to wring it nearly to death! It's such an interesting image with so much going on to marvel at. Very nice indeed

[peter shah]

An absolute corker....you might have found it tricky to process but you've made it look effortless........

[davew]

Keep chipping away at it. It is a thing of beauty

Maybe an opinion of one here but I suggest not trying to get rid of any green content from the squid in an effort to make it just blue. It makes it even fainter !

Nice,

Dave.

[ollypenrice]

Keep chipping away at it. It is a thing of beauty

Maybe an opinion of one here but I suggest not trying to get rid of any green content from the squid in an effort to make it just blue. It makes it even fainter !

Nice,

Dave.

Cheers, Dave. I applied the O111 slightly harder to green than to blue in order to respect the position of the O111 line in the spectrum. I do normally noise reduce green but not in applying the Squid. I'm milking the darned thing for all it can give! The sky looks good yet again so I hope for another 3.5 hours tonight. If we had two O111 filters it would be more, but we don't. The other half of the rig will be on RGB since the moon is appearing again.

Olly

[lensman57]

An abject lesson in understated processing. I for one should take note of this.

Regards,

A.G

[RobH]

Great result Olly, lovely job bringing the cephalopod out so well :-)

[ollypenrice]

Great result Olly, lovely job bringing the cephalopod out so well :-)

Such vocabulary!!!

lly