Cave Nebula

[ollypenrice]

Once we'd finished the pair of LDN dusty objects our guest Paul and I swung the TEC140 onto the Cave Nebula. We let it chunter away for a few nights till we'd got a gratifying 4 hours per channel of LRGB and 5 hours of Ha to play with. This is my processing. With 21 hours of data, processing is a pure delight. This is the kind of object I like working on best, with lots of unexpected colours, contrasting streaks of black dust, golden stars reddened by the dust of the Milky Way, etc.

TEC 140 Apo, Avalon Linear Fast Reverse, Atik 11000 mono. I'm now guiding the Avalon in PHD2 and seem to be getting better results than I did guiding in my usual Astro Art on this mount.

Olly and Paul.

Click on the image and there's a button for a bigger version bottom left (I hope!)

[jimboozle]

it's a beauty, I love the star colours you've managed to maintain.

 

Well done!

[ultranova]

Its pictures like this that got me into Astrophotography

A real stunner she is to, congratulations to you both

of you on a perfect astro pic

Paul

[gnomus]

Sumptuous, Olly.  Really superb ...... as usual.

[Knighty2112]

Excellent image. Very nice. Well done!  

[andyo]

great image love the star colour don't see such yellow stars that often

[swag72]

Very nice Olly - A most pleasing Cave nebula

[PatrickGilliland]

Nice work again Olly - a target I am still to look at.

Paddy

[wimvb]

Stunning image with marvelous balance between the bright and dark parts.

 

[laudropb]

Great image. The best I've seen of the cave.