Cocooned in a sea of Hydrogen

[peter shah]

Cocooned in a sea of Hydrogen

IC5146 The Cocoon Nebula, in RGB and Ha. Imaged remotely from Spain with the Takahashi 130ED f3:3 and the asi6200mm pro full frame sensor
Exposure times were  94x 120s in each RGB and 116x 180s in Ha.

Thanks for looking

Peter Shah
 

Edited August 8, 2023 by peter shah

[bosun21]

Another couple of great images Peter 👍.

[peter shah]

 

4 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

Another couple of great images Peter 👍.

Thank you

[paul mc c]

Stunning....

[peter shah]

8 minutes ago, paul mc c said:

Stunning....

Thanks Paul... this was my second rendition I wasn't entirely happy with the first one....

[Phillyo]

That's just incredible Peter! Simply stunning.

[simmo39]

As said above, that is stunning!

[peter shah]

1 hour ago, Phillyo said:

That's just incredible Peter! Simply stunning.

 

12 minutes ago, simmo39 said:

As said above, that is stunning!

 

Thank you both....it was a bit of a pig to get a good balance between the fluff and the Ha

[WolfieGlos]

Wow again Peter! Opening the image in full screen and scrolling around is really impressive.

[peter shah]

12 minutes ago, WolfieGlos said:

Wow again Peter! Opening the image in full screen and scrolling around is really impressive.

Thank you Chris, I do mostly put up the full resolution if I can for those of us who like to pixel peep (probably most of us).... although I felt this one was way too big for most so this is approximately 80%....I've tried to keep the noise down as much as I could without introducing too many artefacts 

[The Lazy Astronomer]

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[The Lazy Astronomer]

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[The Lazy Astronomer]

Wow - this is astounding!

I'm not sure how you've managed to keep it so starry and yet they're not distracting away from the dusty areas. 

[AstroMuni]

15 hours ago, peter shah said:

Cocooned in a sea of Hydrogen

Wow. Yet another beautiful colourful image from you 🤩

[peter shah]

10 hours ago, The Lazy Astronomer said:

Wow - this is astounding!

I'm not sure how you've managed to keep it so starry and yet they're not distracting away from the dusty areas. 

Thank you... Yes the star field in this part of the sky can cause massive issues when processing, the nebulosity can very easily get lost

10 hours ago, AstroMuni said:

Wow. Yet another beautiful colourful image from you 🤩

Thank you