IC-5070 my best astro pic ever

[toxic]

thanks Ruud

[Uranium235]

Mosaic!!.... mosaic!!.... mosaic!!!!  (its screaming out for it!)

Splendid so far, but this data can go further I think.... Use all your Ha as a luminance master, then process it up with some high pass filter (setting 4.3) and a bit of (noels) contrast enhancement (blended @ about 50%) - then layer it into the above colour image as luminace in iterations. The data looks good & clean, so it should be able to take a few tweaks here & there.

[Coco]

Excellent

[lensman57]

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.

IC 5070 close up jpeg.jpg

Do not touch the collimation yet. The central stars are nice and round but you have elongation in the right hand corner and the top left as far as I can see. If there is elongation in the other two corners and you have used a coma corrector it could either be incorrect distancing of the corrector or that it does not cover the sensor fully that I doubt since you have used the 383L I guess. If you only have elongation in the top left and bottom right then you may have a tilt in the optical train that needs to be corrected.

A.G

[PeterCPC]

Outstanding!

Peter

[toxic]

thanks for the inf and ideas Rob - thanks A.G never thought of tilt i will also check distance as well . thanks Guy and Peter

[CoolHand142]

Great capture! And a lot of hard work in back office.

[toxic]

thanks coolhand

[Sleepy Kiki]

thats lovely Chris, nice wispy colours and not too overprocessed

[kenny k]

Excellent work...well done.

Kenny

[toxic]

thanks Kiki and Kenny

[halli]

Lovely detail and great colour - too good for the old Pelican !

Ian

[toxic]

image update 

all data as above but with 2 more hours of HA and 1 hour of rgb for the stars (4 x 300 sec each chan)

thanks to the usual suspects.

[bluedandelion]

image update 

thanks to the usual suspects.

This looks great. Excellent job!

Ajay

[toxic]

thanks AJay

[cathouse42]

is it me or does it look like a space goat?

[toxic]

a pelicans ghost .thanks cathouse42