Heart nebula in hubble palette

[Martin-Devon]

After many months of half-finished images, I finally managed to complete this one on the Heart nebula. It's a 4 frame mosaic with just 16 hours of 10 minute subs across H-alpha and OIII. Not enough data really, and the OIII had to be done during moonless nights and these were far from perfect to be honest. Looking forward to the longer nights that are now approaching though. 

Thanks for looking,

Martin

[pipnina]

Very dramatic! How did you manage white stars in HST? Usually they turn out pink. I like it, though. Keep it up!

[red dwalf]

Very nice, loads of detail in the image, you must be very pleased.

[Stardust]

lots of detail and punch, well worth the time taken

[Gutross]

breathtaking

[laudropb]

Very nice image with so much detail. Thanks for posting.

[Martin-Devon]

Thanks for the comments.

Pipnina, often with hubble palette based images it's easy to get blue or dark-ish halos around the stars due to the OIII stars being more bloated than the HA ones. Some folk simply reduce star size just on the OIII layer, others use the reduce colour noise filter in Photoshop - I've done the latter for this image.

Martin

[Herra Kuulapaa]

Very nice, do you a larger one showing those dustlines?

[ultranova]

It slaps you round the face,,,,, I like it

Nicely done Martin.

Paul

[PatrickGilliland]

Nice work as always Martin - observation on my monitor is that its quite bright and wonder if backing of a bit would reveal more?

Either way as always great detail and good to see you back in production again

Paddy

[symesie04]

Looks great.

[bob-c]

fantastic image.

                       Robert..

[nameunknown]

wow - put this man on the Hubble with a decent supply of "whatever they eat in Devon", a box of tools, spacesuit and internet connection - and we are laughing (in the nicest sort of way)..

Truly brilliant image!

P

[Barry-Wilson]

I'm really pleased to see another of your images with your charcteristic dedication and diligent data collection, sharpness and smooth background: no evidence of this being a 4-pane mosaic.

My only constructive observation is that Melotte 15 seems a little lost in the bright signal.  I like the orangey/yellow tone to the HOO blend.

Good stuff Martin.