Sailboat Cluster

[ollypenrice]

Another of Tom's ideas, this was previously unknown to me.  Because of the interesting dark stuff and very faint blue reflection nebulosity we shot plenty of data over the last few nights, once M22 was finished. This had 7.5 hours luminance and 3 hours per colour, so 16.5 hours. TEC140/Avalon Linear/Atik 11000. In this one the processing is mine. The cluster is in Casseopeia and, I have to say, took me a while to pick out. However, I took a spyglass to the area and think I have it! See the crop.  I wonder if Skipper Billy will agree???

Olly and Tom

 

 

[Davey-T]

Lovely image of an interesting target, seen it marked on Stellarium but never tried imaging it, called NGC225.

Dave

[cfpendock]

Magnificent.  As always, Olly, you certainly know how to process stars!

Chris

[ChrisLX200]

That's cool, never heard of it before. Excellent image of it too

ChrisH

[kendg]

The master(s) strike again. Really interesting cluster. 

Thanks for the image.

[laudropb]

Terrific image.

[Scooot]

That's lovely Olly & Tom. I looked this up in my DS Browser app which downloads images from the Deep Sky Surveys and I must say your image looks far superior. The clarity of the stars together with the reflection nebula makes the sail boat very obvious, particularly in the crop.

[martin_h]

Always worth a look.................... http://www.deep-sky.co.uk/asterisms.htm

[swag72]

I love the way that you have portrayed this in the spyglass - I think that it highlights the Sailboat and also really focuses the eye. A great presentation

[PatrickGilliland]

Nice work - my favourite type of target with DN being lifted by a local colour.  Nice work 

Paddy

[toxic]

this is a beaut image another great image from Olly & Tom 

[Rodd]

Great image...tryng to see the sailboat.  

[ollypenrice]

2 hours ago, Rodd said:

Great image...tryng to see the sailboat.  

Just a guess...

Olly

[jetstream]

This is a stunning image!!

Wheres the noise Olly?! I don't see any noise! Kudos to Tom and yourself.

[ollypenrice]

6 hours ago, jetstream said:

This is a stunning image!!

Wheres the noise Olly?! I don't see any noise! Kudos to Tom and yourself.

16.5 hours of data did their bit to reduce noise... I did apply NR to the darker parst of the colour layer, though. Rather less to the darker parts of the L.

Olly

[jetstream]

Whatever you did Olly is giving a crystal clear image, great work!

[steppenwolf]

A fascinating object, beautifully captured and a new one to me as I'd never heard of it before. Nice presentation, Olly.