NGC281 Pacman - a different view.

[ollypenrice]

This target tends to be dominated by narrowband renditions but here we have deep broadband colour. The obvious difference is that the nebula is seen to be embedded in dust and lies at the edge of a dusty front.

The RASA 8 was driven by Paul Kummer, remotely, and he did the stacking. My post processing. This was a very enjoyable data set to work on. 

For the finer details the big one is here: https://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Emission-Nebulae/i-7Z5phNC/A

Olly

 

[gorann]

Great image Olly - it is surely dusty! I had missed this post so it was just by chance that I aimed my RASA rig at the Pacman a few nights ago. I needed something bright as the moon was out and I used the NBZ filter (Ha+Oiii) to suppress the moon effect as much as possible. Like you I found a lot of dust. It was interesting toe see that for every stretch I saw more and more dust and less and less Pacman, or the way we are used to see the Pacman.

Cheers, Göran

 

[CCD Imager]

Always nice to see a new perspective of a common object, the surrounding dust is quite striking, excellent rendition!

Adrian

[cfinn]

Indeed! Here’s mine that I posted a few weeks back as well, which shows it can be done with a refractor and a reasonable integration time with some careful processing. No RASA required! Though I’m sure it helps…

[CCD Imager]

55 minutes ago, cfinn said:

Indeed! Here’s mine that I posted a few weeks back as well, which shows it can be done with a refractor and a reasonable integration time with some careful processing. No RASA required! Though I’m sure it helps…

Very nice too. These days, it seems that if you go deep enough, there is dust every where, almost obligatory!