Sh2-86

[ollypenrice]

...AKA NGC6820. Usually imaged in narrowband for its fine details, here's how this extended nebulosity looks in RGB colour (plus L and Ha.) The Milky Way is developing those nice rich golden colours as it heads down towards Sagittarius and the galactic centre. We're in Vulpecula here, though, near M27.

This was taken with Paul Kummer in June, plus in a run last night, and deserves a second panel above this one to explore the strong signal heading out of shot here. I'll start on that ASAP.

Twin Tak FSQ106 with dual Atik 11000 full frame CCDs on Mesu 200. Baader LRGB filters, 3 nm Astrodon Ha.

Olly

[steppenwolf]

A lovely region of sky - the area at bottom left looks like a sea-horse!

[Jonk]

Very nice - how many stars?!

[ollypenrice]

2 minutes ago, steppenwolf said:

A lovely region of sky - the area at bottom left looks like a sea-horse!

Glad you think so, too. It seems to be recoiling from the great red blob!

Olly

[ultranova]

Beautifully executed on all fronts,

the colours are amazing, nice to see this in RGB

Nicely done Olly / Paul

Paul

[swag72]

There's lots there to look over and enjoy.......  I look forward to seeing the additional pane. Damn moon is starting to be about now though  

[wxsatuser]

Nice and red, one to make a note of for future go with Ha.

[toxic]

great image and field of view Olly it is a very bizy piece of sky

[Allinthehead]

Nicely done Olly. I love the stars.

[Tom OD]

Another lovely image Olly, and another I m not familiar with. I think the Reds here look great with the Browns form the Milky Way. great job.

T.

[ollypenrice]

10 minutes ago, Tom OD said:

Another lovely image Olly, and another I m not familiar with. I think the Reds here look great with the Browns form the Milky Way. great job.

T.

That's what I like in the target as well.

Olly

[Rodd]

Looks good.  3.5 arcsec/pix seems to be very adequate.  Looking forward to trying it.  Be a long time before I get results like these.  LRGB is so difficult!

Rodd