Faint hydrogen ripples in Cygnus: DWB 145

[pietervdv]

Good evening all,

 

Long time without a post. Due to circumstances I was not able to do any imaging the last 4 months (breaking both your arms is no fun! ),  so I am happy to share a new image!

Last week there was a stretch of 3 clear nights with some very stable seeing. This object has been on my bucket list for a long time, so there was no escaping it anylonger.

It is a very nice "waterfall like" hydrogen ripple in Cygnus, called DWB145. This is a 2 panel mosaic.

The image acquisition was done with SGP. As always I have kept processing to an absolute minimum to maintain the most natural look.

The calibrated panes were stretched (levels & curves + minor high pass filter) and stitched in Photoshop.

 

Scope: 10" f/3.8 Astrograph

CCD: sbig st8300 (-10°C), it was over 20°C at midnight!

Filter: Astrodon 5nm

Exposure: 14 hours in 20min subframes

Mount: Mesu200

 

For the pixel peepers, the full resolution (5847 x 2396) version can be seen here:

Full resolution

 

Anyway hopefully you like it, thanks for checking it out!

 

Regards,

Pieter

[PatrickGilliland]

First Ouch!  Hope you are on road to a full recovery.  Sustained double leg injury previously and that was bad enough can imagine a lot worse with arms!

Nice return to the imaging - the 'ripples' are nice and create some texture on the shot.

Paddy

[ChrisLX200]

Yes nice texture, sort of reminiscent of supernova remnants. I had to go plate-solve it as I was curious as to exactly where it was

ChrisH

[pietervdv]

Thanks for the comments! Good to be up and running again...

[StargeezerTim]

Ouch! Sorry you have had problems. It sounds painful... Good to see you are now able to resume posting your fab images. Cheers, Tim. 

[peter shah]

this a superb shot. just love it. I love your choice of framing too.

[Fay]

I really love this Pieter. Mono really suits it.

 

Fay 

[laudropb]

Very nice image.