Pickering's Triangle Bicolour - PI Only Experiment

[gnomus]

For reasons unknown, we experienced a good night here last night.  Indeed, I managed to get 5 hours of data during 'Astro Dark' - all of it with reasonable guiding.  I had an hour of Ha  from the previous evening.  So this made 9 x 20 mins of Ha and 9 x 20 mins of OIII.  All captured using the Esprit 120 and the QSI 690.  Filters were 3nm Astrodons.

I did my pre-processing in PixInsight.  The stacks looked reasonable and I just 'kept going' in PixInsight.  This is PixInsight with no Photoshop whatsoever, which is a first for me.  It is reasonably clean but my original plan was to get at least 6 hours of Ha and OIII, and I may carry on with that.  As usual, I'd appreciate comments and criticism.

[MattJenko]

Lovely. Only a bazillion more panels to go

[Davey-T]

Lovely misty 3D quality to that Steve, really like it.

Is that the full FOV of the scope / camera, are you using a reducer ?

Dave

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Really superb result

[swag72]

Looking good Steve

[gnomus]

13 minutes ago, MattJenko said:

Lovely. Only a bazillion more panels to go

Thanks Matt, but this will have to remain just a detail - if I was in my twenties then there may be time....

9 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Lovely misty quality to that Steve, really like it.

Is that the full FOV of the scope / camera, are you using a reducer ?

Dave

Thanks Dave.  It is the full FOV (just cropping out the rough edges).  I have the Skywatcher flattener for the Esprit.  Not sure if they do a reducer - Barry Wilson suggested that the WO reducer/flattener might work with it.

Thanks also to Michael and Sara.

 

[PatrickGilliland]

Very nice - almost has a feel of liquid waves without excessive noise reduction.

Paddy

[Barry-Wilson]

Excellent Steve.  Nothing to suggest as this is a super image.  All PI too . . . . .  Lights blue touch paper and walks away . . .

[gnomus]

2 minutes ago, Barry-Wilson said:

Excellent Steve.  Nothing to suggest as this is a super image.  All PI too . . . . .  Lights blue touch paper and walks away . . .

Shhh.  Don't tell Olly....

[peter shah]

Beautiful feather like structure so well imaged

[Gina]

Cracking image Gromit - er I mean Gnomus   Absolutely beautiful

[gnomus]

Thank you Peter and Gina for your kind comments.