NGC 6995 (close up)

[alan4908]

A narrow band close up of NGC 6995 with Ha mapped to red and OIII mapped to blue. An artificial green was generated by Carboni's PS actions. I decided to attempt realistic looking colours by calibrating the image via Pixinsight's Photometric Colour Calibration tool.

The result of a 30 hour integration is shown below and was taken with my Esprit 150.

Apart from the interesting detail, I found if you stare at the image you can see a variety of shapes - so far I've spotted a large horse (red), an owl (blue) and deer skull (blue).  What you can you see ?

Alan

LIGHTS: Ha:40, OIII: 20 x 1800s, DARKS:30, BIAS:100, FLATS:40 all at -20C.

[souls33k3r]

I see... 

Jokes apart, beautiful image mate

[Brian28]

Amazing detail Alan 

[Hawksmoor]

Excellent and interesting image.  Bottom right - Mrs May's head in profile unusually red but her shoulder and upper torso are in blue.

Best regards from George in Lowestoft

[dave_galera]

A different take on a well imaged object, beautiful details, an brilliant image!!

[ronl]

That is a spectacular image, great work.

[don4l]

A lovely image.  I would never thought of trying something like this.

[steppenwolf]

A lovely detailed and colourful image, Alan. Great processing too!

[Seanelly]

I can see...that my gear will never equal the image seen here, which is why I appreciate you sharing this so much!

[alan4908]

Many thanks for all your comments, they are much appreciated. 

Alan

[Brian Maurer]

Wow that really smacks you in the face,  wry nice!

[alan4908]

7 hours ago, Brian Maurer said:

Wow that really smacks you in the face,  wry nice!

Thanks for the comment.  Yes, the image doesn't really feature pastel colours very much 

Alan