M27 Dumbbell bicolour (24 hr exposure)

[pietervdv]

Hi all,

Last week I've put together some of my data made the last couple of months to compose this bi-colour image of M27. Quite tricky to proces due to the high dynamic range of the object, quite a pain to tease out the faint outer details without making the image look to forced. I started the processing job from scratch a couple of times, but settled with this version for now. The h-alpha data was acquired from my heavily light polluted backyard, the o3 data I acquired during an astro holiday in Southern France (Provence) under pitch black skies late August.

Thanks for checking them out.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Some details of my gear:

Scope: 10" f/3.8 homebuilt Astrograph with 3" Wynne corrector

CMOS: ASI-1600 MM Cool (-10°C)

Filter: Astrodon 5nm h-alpha / Baader 4,5nm o3

Exposure: 24 hours in 5min subframes (15 hrs h-alpha / 9 hours o3)

Mount: Mesu200

[Stuart1971]

Absolutely stunning....😮👍

[TerryMcK]

Fantastic 

[MarkAR]

Superb, best I've seen.

[toxic]

great image well done

 

[Adam1234]

Great image. 

It looks like the nebula has bat wings 🦇

[mackiedlm]

That has to be the best M27 I have seen. Stunning level of detail and taking it so far out from what we normally see in M27 Images. Amazing!

[david_taurus83]

Brilliant!

Any details or pics of your homemade scope?

[Mick J]

A cracker, 24hrs with cmos wowsers, great stuff.

[CraigT82]

Incredible! Never seen M27 look like that

[pietervdv]

Thanks all for the nice comments!

2 hours ago, david_taurus83 said:

Brilliant!

Any details or pics of your homemade scope?

Thank you! The scope is based on a 250 mm f/4 premium grade mirror, all other components are custom designed/made parts. I have been very happy with it! There are some pictures of the design and build here:

https://pietervandevelde.smugmug.com/Pics/Deepsky-Equipment/

[alan potts]

Absolutely stunning image.

Alan

[mftoet]

That turned out excellent and very deep, just as you wanted.

[simmo39]

Wow, just Wow!

[Camissa]

Beautifully done!

Ecki

[carastro]

Excellent result.

Carole 

[geoflewis]

Simply stunning, superb...!!