IC-5070 my best astro pic ever

[toxic]

i am well pleased with this.

15 x 1200 sec HA binned  1 x 1

8   x 600   sec OIII binned 2 x 2

6   x 600   sec S2 binned 2 x 2

the stars are from short rgb data for there color

stacked in dss  processed in photoshop cs2 

it took 5 clearish nights to gather the data a couple of hours per night i chucked out half the images high cloud ruined them.

[Stargazer33]

You have very good reason to smile with that image Chris. It's a real cracker!

[toxic]

thank you very much Bryan i cant wipe the smile of my face lol like a big kid again ha ha ha

[Komet]

Lovely result. Good work!

[xtreemchaos]

outstanding pic mate,thanks for sharing.

[toxic]

thanks guys

[swag72]

Nice image - Well done

[Grotemobile]

Another thumbs up here.

Very good.

Steve.

[VikN46]

What a super image!  

[toxic]

thanks Sara Steve n Vik 

[ultranova]

Looks like your patience and perseverance has paid off

A lot to be proud of, what ever you done on that one .....Keep doing it:)

Well done Chris a cracking picture

Paul

[johnrt]

Great colours, good saturation but moody and muted. Very nice.

[Fay]

Really nice. lovely colours

Fay

[lensman57]

That is lovely. I love the blue.

A.G

[toxic]

thanks Paul - John - Fay - A.G thanks for your kind comments 

[laser_jock99]

Nice Pelican Nebula- excellent detail.

[cloudbuster]

Nice one chris....great composition & colours!

[Roysten]

Wow, I'd quite like that as my desktop background!

[toxic]

thanks guys   still cant wipe this stupid grin of my face lol

[Mr Spock]

A real beauty - well done.

[toxic]

I just enhanced and enlarged the pillar region just for fun really but it has shown me 2 things 1. that with more ha subs i should be able to zoom in more and more importantly 2. i think that my scope needs collimating better.

[toxic]

thanks Michael

[ollypenrice]

Good one. NB stars aren't often as crisp as these in coloured images.

Olly

[toxic]

i have been practicing doing the stars separately then adding them back in to the image at somewhere near the end off processing, i have bean watching tutorials till they came out my ears lol but its very rewarding when it all comes together.

[Ruud]

It's a magnificent image!