Rosette nebula - image by my son (11)

[Avdhoeven]

Davy, my son of 11, joined the astrophotographer of the year competition last year and wanted to join again this year. However, he wanted to make a deepsky recording now, so in November we went together to see if we could find a nice project that he could go on with. He went to search on the internet to see which object he wanted to photograph and came with the rosettenevel. He studied several photos and then I gave him the astroplanner software and let him determine how to put the nebula in image.

Then we started in November and then together we took 3 nights of recordings of this nebula in ha, oiii and sii. The advantage of SGP is that even a child can do the work  if all is well introduced SGP just runs off its program and you have a nice folder with recordings in the morning.

This data I had edited myself before to see if the quality was ok, but now I wanted him to do it himself. That's why I first showed him with another recording how to process an image in APP and then combine to an RGB recording. Then how to do with PS some more color corrections to get to a final result. After that, I gave him the dataset (lights, flats, bpm and bias) and then let him go ahead. This is what came out...

Sometimes as a father you can be so proud 

[Skipper Billy]

Fantastic - you should be very proud of your son and he should be very proud of his image.

Please tell him I think he has done really, really well.

[Grant]

That's awesome ?

 

[Pig]

I can only echo the comments above ? If your son is producing quality images at 11 years of age I can only imagine the possibilities going forward ? 

Edited February 26, 2019 by Pig

[vlaiv]

Beautiful image indeed!

[scotttumsh]

Well done young man! superb image

[carastro]

Absolutely amazing result from an 11 year old, you should enter it into the Insight Astrophotographer of the Year in the children's category.

Carole 

[Laurin Dave]

Fabulous image, how good is he going to be when he grows up !

Dave

[Avdhoeven]

On 26/02/2019 at 15:26, carastro said:

Absolutely amazing result from an 11 year old, you should enter it into the Insight Astrophotographer of the Year in the children's category.

Carole 

We did that and he's shortlisted

[Datalord]

That is very far from my first try at processing an image. Very well done indeed.

[newbie alert]

As a 11 year old he knows far more than me..fantastic and a inspiratation to us all.. well done that lad..

[DougM43]

Superb image, you both should be very proud.

[glowingturnip]

excellent image, well done

[tomato]

Superb image, who would say AP is so easy, a child could do it? I don’t think so, your son shows a dedication and application of knowledge well ahead of his years, you can be immensely proud of him.👍

[Gina]

Yes indeed!

[MarsG76]

11 huh.. WOW.. thats something to be proud of.. talented little one.

 

[rubecula]

Brilliant image, brilliant son!!

[Stub Mandrel]

Nice one.

You do realise the lifetime cost of starting astrophotography at age 10...?

[Avdhoeven]

Thanks for the nice replies! 

[Xiga]

Absolutely amazing. One of my favourite objects, and your son has nailed it. Well done indeed!

He obviously has a good teacher, so well done to you too André! 

On 22/06/2019 at 20:53, Stub Mandrel said:

Nice one.

You do realise the lifetime cost of starting astrophotography at age 10...?

Yes, but on the plus side...

😂

 

[assouptro]

Fantastic image and a heartwarming story, thanks for sharing and good luck to him in the competition! 

I hope he stays inspired by the universe and it’s wonderful treasures!

Clear skies 

Bryan

[Avdhoeven]

Well, we returned yesterday from London, and I'm so proud. Davy has won the 'young astronomy photographer of the year' award. He's so happy and never dared to dream of this. He's already thinking about his next project  All winners: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2019/overall-winners

He was even on Dutch television in the national youth journal  https://jeugdjournaal.nl/uitzending/44233-avondjournaal.html from 09:18

[DaveS]

Yay, well done to young Davy, and a very proud dad!

A worthy winner, that's a cracking Rosette.

[dave_galera]

Congratulations....well done!!!!

[Guest]

Brilliant image😲 Regards

Martin