NGC1333 - collaboration with Paddy Gilliland - longer FL

[Barry-Wilson]

Further to my earlier post, after some email exchanges with Paddy Gilliland who has been collecting Luminance data on NGC1333 using his Borg 125, we have shared data: he sent his additional Lum data to me and I have sent him my RGB data.

I have combined the two image scales in PI and we now have a higher resolution than my widefield image . . . all encouraged by Olly's post about how interesting this nebula can be.

Hi res here, http://astrob.in/219842/B/.

Thanks for looking and C&C always welcome & thank you Paddy.

[cfpendock]

That's got to be as good as it gets..... So whats the total exposure time now?

Chris

[PhotoGav]

That's definitely a winner, looks great. Good job on sharing the data, that makes a lot of sense, especially given how much cloud we have to put up with here!

[Barry-Wilson]

Cheers Chris and Gav.

I'm waiting some confirmation of the integration time of the additional luminance from Paddy, but I think total integration now stands at a little over 17 hours.

[strutsinaction]

Congrats to you both. Stunning effort!

Regards

John

[Barry-Wilson]

Thanks John.  I've never mixed pixel scales before and PI did a very good job rescaling the FSQ85's LRGB scale to match that of the Lum from the Borg 125.

[toxic]

absolute Beauty 

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Thanks for posting.

[Barry-Wilson]

Thank you Chris and laudropb.

[morimarty]

That's a real corker Barry, you should be so proud of this image.

[Sp@ce_d]

Barry that's gorgeous. Lovely colours & dust. A real collection of fine jewels.

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[swag72]

I think that extra data has really lifted the image compared to when there was less - A challenging target in terms of both data collection and processing - Well done!

[Martin-Devon]

That's a stunner, and full credit to yourself and Paddy for the quality of data and integrating the two mixes. The processing you've done here Barry is excellent, balanced, vibrant, and the dusty nebulosity within looks great - this sets the bar now for this tricky target - well done!

Martin

[Barry-Wilson]

Thanks Martyn and Spa@ce_d - funnily I too think of jewels when I lookk at the nebula.

I think that extra data has really lifted the image compared to when there was less - A challenging target in terms of both data collection and processing - Well done!

I agree.  I've patiently waited the last 3 nights for the weather to lift as predicted by the forecast - ie clear skies - but there has just been 100% cloud, and Paddy's luminance has really helped.  Meantime, he has been waiting for the cloud to clear to collect RGB . . . pragmatism really.

That's a stunner, and full credit to yourself and Paddy for the quality of data and integrating the two mixes. The processing you've done here Barry is excellent, balanced, vibrant, and the dusty nebulosity within looks great - this sets the bar now for this tricky target - well done!

Martin

Thank you Martin.  I'm relatively new to dust processing and it wasn't easy to lift it from the background without out blowing out the already signal rich areas.  Hope you're well.