Owl nebula (M97)

[MartinB]

Wonderful, wonderful to be out again Shame I had to pack up for work at 11.00pm

The Owl nebula is a planetary nebula with a 16 mag star at it's centre surrounded by cylindrical matter-pool (green) which in turn is surrounded by gas of lower ionisation (red).

It is about 6 000 years old and somewhere between 1 300 to 12 000 light years away.

Taken with NS8 Atik x0.5 FR Luminence 50x45 secs RGB each 15x45.

Very faint on screen with a 45 sec exposure. Apparently the green emission makes it brighter visually than photographically.

Fewer RGB subs than I would have liked cos had to go to work. The blue was a waste of time because there is obviously very little being emitted - didn't show up at all.

The quality of this image seems very monitor dependent

[geppetto]

The quality of this image seems very monitor dependent

Looks stunning on mine 8)

Very nice

[Darron]

Nic pic Martin :hello1:

Darron

[OXO]

Well Done that man excellent image Martin 8)

[daz]

Nice image Martin!!

Looks good on my work LCD screen - will be even better on the home one!

[CELESCOPE]

sorry Martin , missed this one , ah now yes thats a beauty mate , lovely image, you are one up on me now with LRGB Martin, and you got the detail nice as well, a huge well done , i will wait till i get home to look at it on my tft screen , should be even better

Rog

[Martin 2]

That looks very good Martin

M2

[Saso]

Very nice picture.

Saso

[MartinB]

Thanks everyone.

Funny but I put far more work into that little owl than anything I have done so far.

[Greg]

Looks good on my work LCD screen

Mr Daz.........My office Monday morning 9 o'clock SHARP!!!

Very nice pic Martin, very nice indeed........You little tinker you!!

[Naz]

Stunning Martin, nice work.

naz

[russ]

Superb Martin......really really nice!

One object I would love to capture properly.

Russ