The Little Dumbell

[Petergoodhew]

I do like Planetary Nebulae and have long wanted to have a go at this one.  Imaged from Spain.  RGB with HA and OIII added.  20 hours of data capture. As it lives up to it's name and is quite small I prefer to display it cropped.

For those wanting to see every pixel here is the un-cropped version

 

[Mr niall]

Very cool - think I like the second one the best!

[Sp@ce_d]

Lovely.. partial to these longer FL targets myself. Must keep saving up for some Spanish Skies..

[Barry-Wilson]

Another top image on this difficult target Peter. Well done.

[Davey-T]

Nicely captured Peter, another of those targets I try to get a bit more data on every year 

Dave

[Petergoodhew]

16 hours ago, Barry-Wilson said:

Another top image on this difficult target Peter. Well done.

Thanks Barry.  I think this is a very pretty target (as cataclysmic explosions go!) and it was fun to process.  A lot of dynamic range to manage.  I'm nit happy though about the amount of green, so have had a go at fixing that.  I'm much happier with the result now.

[steppenwolf]

Very nice indeed, Peter, especially the full FOV version. Ironically, I prefer the one that retains some of the green but either way, a very pretty object.

[Petergoodhew]

15 minutes ago, steppenwolf said:

Very nice indeed, Peter, especially the full FOV version. Ironically, I prefer the one that retains some of the green but either way, a very pretty object.

Thanks Steve.  Olly always tells me off if he finds any green lurking in my images! I got your new book last week and found it invaluable in processing this image.  I just wish you had published it a couple of years ago! It will make a huge difference to my processing from now on.

[steppenwolf]

17 minutes ago, Petergoodhew said:

Thanks Steve.  Olly always tells me off if he finds any green lurking in my images!

Pah, what does Olly know? ................................................................................ actually, quite a lot

 

19 minutes ago, Petergoodhew said:

I got your new book last week and found it invaluable in processing this image.  I just wish you had published it a couple of years ago! It will make a huge difference to my processing from now on.

That's great news, Peter, thank you, I'm really pleased you like the book. I should have published it a couple of years ago but life got in the way!

[rotatux]

I prefer the full-FoV version too, as I like to see objects in context (and still possible to zoom in the full-res image).

Nice color and shape details in the nebula.

[toxic]

WOW what a beaut image Peter i havent seen it that close before 

[Tom OD]

Excellent. I think I prefer the colour of the second one.

Tom.

[alan4908]

Very impressive Peter -  I've always wanted to try this target myself.

Alan