M27 with the outer shell

[peter shah]

Its been a while since I've posted... so I thought it was about time. M27 The Dumbbell Nebula showing its outer shell. Imaged with the William Optics 132 and an FLI ML-8300 in Ha, O3 and RGB and cropped in nice and close. Exposure times were 6hours of Ha, 6hours of O3 and 1 hour each In RGB total of 15hours.

Thanks for looking  

[JamesF]

I think that's possibly the most stunning image of M27 that I've seen posted here.

James

[peter shah]

9 minutes ago, JamesF said:

I think that's possibly the most stunning image of M27 that I've seen posted here.

James

Thank you James....

[RT65CB-SWL]

As what @JamesF said. 

[peter shah]

21 minutes ago, Philip R said:

As what @JamesF said. 

Its a great little scope the WO132

[Davey-T]

Amazing image, looks like it's got wings.

Little 

Dave

[dave_galera]

Yes an amazing image with the outer shell that you don't often see in such detail

[laudropb]

Definitely the best image I have seen of this old favourite.

[peter shah]

53 minutes ago, dave_galera said:

Yes an amazing image with the outer shell that you don't often see in such detail

 

4 minutes ago, laudropb said:

Definitely the best image I have seen of this old favourite.

Thank you... it was a pig to get a smooth transition from the super bright core to faint outer shell ...Processed it in Photoshop cs3 

[Craney]

Wow....  an explosive image..      It  seems to expand outwards and towards you as you look at it.

[peter shah]

2 minutes ago, Craney said:

Wow....  an explosive image..      It  seems to expand outwards and towards you as you look at it.

Thank you....The O3 was quite strong...you can just see it extending past the outer Halpha

[peter shah]

Thought it might be worth posting the full frame... I quite like it with its extending shell, although it looks a little lost in the frame

20 hours ago, Davey-T said:

Amazing image, looks like it's got wings.

Little 

Dave

Thank you Dave