Cocoon Deep Field

[ollypenrice]

Taken with SGLer Gedan using the twin Tak tandem/Mesu 200/Atik 11000 (Tom's) and SXVH36 (Yves'), this has 23.5 hours of data taken over three nights. Plus some high res overlays just for the Coccon itself from larger scopes.

Ha 25x30 mins at 7Nm and 6x30 at 3Nm.

Lum 17x15

RGB 5x15 per channel.

This appraoch to the target was pioneered by Fabian Neyer, whom we salute! Seeing the dust lanes as foreground objects blew my socks off when I first saw his famous image. Ha was added to red and as luminance. The signal is very faint in Ha for the widefield even with 15.5 Hrs all in. The big processing challenge was keeping the stars down by using masks and carefully chosen curves. There are rather a lot of them in this region!

Olly and Gedan.

[astro mick]

Very nice image olly,shame about those dirty black smudges.

Mick.

Its a corker,as usual.

[JessicaFaye]

wow that's incredible... Your images are always incredible Olly! Very nice

[swag72]

That really does stand out beautifully in the sea of stars and nebulosity. A super image. As an aside, I hope Gordon is behaving himself

[ultranova]

By all accounts you have gone the full Monty with this one,

The unusual way you have added the HA has given a different feel to the area.

Nicely done Olly and Gedan,

Paul

[johnrt]

It often leaves me baffled as to how and why people come to the conclusion that there is no point in imaging DSO's as someone has done it before and it will just be the same, just go and look at google images. This image has such a different feel to it than the usual widefield cocoon nebula images you see.

It also baffles me when people argue against remote imaging set up's and sharing data as "you haven't taken the image".

There are so many ways to emphasise the different elements of the data, all as valid as the last, and when they turn out as splendid as this one, who's to argue?

[ollypenrice]

That really does stand out beautifully in the sea of stars and nebulosity. A super image. As an aside, I hope Gordon is behaving himself

Very badly, like most of your friends! 

lly

[toxic]

WOW beautiful image and great processing now thats something to aspire to 

[ScottS]

Wow! That's a very busy region of the universe and a cracking image. Nice work.

[leemanley]

Now that's what I call a rich sky !
Great work, as ever...............
Lee

[NorrinRadd]

Fantastic !

[gingergeek]

Cosmic art in action, brilliant.

[algol]

Beautiful keep it up man

[ollypenrice]

Thanks All.

Perhaps I should have posted the conventional version as well, just in LRGB. Here we go.

The high res version combining data from the ODK14 with Yves and  from our TEC140 is this one;

Olly

[dazza1639]

Mama zing images Olly

[Kbramley]

Top drawer work there Olly/Gedan, nice to see the LRGB and the close up of the Cocoon which is simply stunning, really like the subtle dust bands and the star colours on that one. 

[Mark72]

Great image Olly, indeed respect to Fabian, his work is inspirational in all ways.

Mark

[MartinB]

That's a massive image and a huge amount of work on the processing.  I love the dust in the hi res image the way it changes from reflection to dark nebulosity, lovely.

[PNJ]

what can you say apart from gold medal awarded.

beautiful 

paul j

[ollypenrice]

Thanks, guys. I've no reason to believe that my data is any better than Fabian's but I have to say that I'm stunned by his processing. This whole thing is about learning.

Olly

[bogdog]

amazing shots

[davew]

How refreshing to see a wide field that's been allowed to " Run ". No stunted processing here. Very nice,

Dave.

[theo]

Beautiful images!!

Pete

[Beyond_Vision]

Very nicely framed Olly and Gedan a beautiful scene. I also love the detail in the close up of the Cocoon itself.

Regards

[Barry-Wilson]

First class image once again Olly and congrats to Gedan: a beautiful Cocoon and surrounding dark dust lanes.

Barry