Pillars of Creation (Ha-O3 at 1340mm)

[Craney]

A popular object at the moment and derservingly so.

There is a slot between a beast of a tree and my neighbours house that allows about an hour of imaging of this iconic object.  I was keen and the Moon with scudding cloud kept out of the way.

So  23x1min Ha   and  11 x 2mins O3   with an Atik 414ex mono @-20'C  attached to an UK Orion Optics Mak140 ( Astrophysics 0.67x reducer). 

This is the intial DSS stretch and a bit of tweaking in PS.  No refinement to be seen here !!

I'm quite pleased with that.  😀

 

Sean.

[tooth_dr]

Superb Sean. Excellent framing and detail. 

[Craney]

Thanks Adam. 

I had a smile on my face when the first sub came through..... "oh yes".... I thought  "this might just work out".   ( Not always the case with my imaging.)

It's not quite the Hubble rendition, but it cost about 4 billion pounds less.... 

OK, well, maybe ... looking at the kit I acquired in the last year or two, 3 billion pounds less  😂🤣

 

[Craney]

Ok....  I could n't resist......

I apportion the difference in quality on the the fact that the HST is closer to the gas cloud...