Calamari and Comet for starters

[peter shah]

Comet C/20223 E1 (Atlas) meets The Squid (Ou4) and The Bat Nebula SH2-129. Imaged Remotely from Spain with the Tak Epsilon 130ED and the asi6200mm pro
Exposure times were 75x 120s in each RGB filter 36x 300in Ha and 125x 300s in OIII. The comet was passing by in the early hours on the 30th of July 2023.
Those who have imaged this part of the sky will know what a challenge it is to do, this took me several iterations to before I was happy it. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop. 

Thanks for looking
Peter Shah

[WolfieGlos]

Wow. Stunning image Peter! 

[Phillyo]

Just incredible once again!

[DirkSteele]

Beautiful!

[glafnazur]

Wow super image Peter 👌 

[peter shah]

11 hours ago, WolfieGlos said:

Wow. Stunning image Peter! 

 

10 hours ago, Phillyo said:

Just incredible once again!

 

10 hours ago, DirkSteele said:

Beautiful!

 

8 hours ago, glafnazur said:

Wow super image Peter 👌 

 

 

Thank you for the comments ...I was hoping for a bit more of a tail with regards to the comet but alas pretty unimpressive but I think still adds something to it

[tomato]

That’s one of the brightest images of the Squid nebula I’ve seen and great structure detail in the Bat and a comet in there for good measure,  wonderful!

[simmo39]

Boy oh boy, that is incredible! One of my favourite objects.

[peter shah]

25 minutes ago, simmo39 said:

Boy oh boy, that is incredible! One of my favourite objects.

Thank you ...One of my favourites too....been wanting to do this for ages, just never got around to it

45 minutes ago, tomato said:

That’s one of the brightest images of the Squid nebula I’ve seen and great structure detail in the Bat and a comet in there for good measure,  wonderful!

I had to work really hard to pull it out with careful noise repair....but it was clear when processing that it has what I'm going to describe as spiral veins going through it....quite amazing....and the comet was a bonus...didn't plan that actually... In the words of the late great Bob Ross "one of those happy accidents"

Edited August 17, 2023 by peter shah

[Blauvista]

The RGB data adds a very nice touch to the overall composition - a very nice result!

[Spitfire]

Nice one Peter.

What bandwidth are the Ha and O3 filters you have used.

Geoff

[peter shah]

13 minutes ago, Blauvista said:

The RGB data adds a very nice touch to the overall composition - a very nice result!

Thank you....I noticed some of the faint brown fluff so collected a little more RGB. Its has a very low contrast layer of dust covering the upper left side of the field so had to increase the contrast a touch more to show it and stop it looking muddy

9 minutes ago, Spitfire said:

Nice one Peter.

What bandwidth are the Ha and O3 filters you have used.

Geoff

Thanks Geoff, they are both 6nm.