Orion, Monoceros and more- 42 panel mosaic.

[ollypenrice]

Another of those mad endeavours! Here is the blurb:

Orion

bordered by Gemini, Auriga, Taurus, Eridanus, Lepus, Canis Major and Monoceros.

The celebrities here include the Spaghetti, Jellyfish and Monkey Head Nebulae, the Crab,  the Hyades, the Cone, IC447, the Rosette, the Meissa Nebula, Barnard’s Loop, Barnard 32, The Boogey Man, M78, The Horse and Flame, M42 and the Running Man, NGC2179, The Witch Head and the Wolf. We have the glow of Sirus lower left and plenty of room above Aldebaran upper right. The uppermost bright star is Elnath, definitively placed in Taurus in 1930, prior to which it was also placed in Auriga. Enough glitter for Saturday night at the London Palladium! Most of these photogenic celebs were gently enhanced by the addition, very discretely, of a little telescopic data which fifteen years of imaging has left in the bank.

This has 42 panels, each with a target of 40 x 3 minute subs. The hard work was done by Paul Kummer, who planned the mosaic, captured it, calibrated the 42 individual images, combined them, sorted out the field geometry and handed me a large linear image to post-process. This I did, blending in the telescopic data along the way. All stars, however, are Samyang.

Peter Woods provided both mount and camera (M Uno and TS2600 OSC.) The remarkable Samyang 135 lens is mine, used wide open here at F2. This robotically controlled rig lives in one of our remote imaging sheds.

And here's the pic. If you want to find the Crab you'll need to see the big one: https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Emission-Nebulae/i-VFj7SdZ/0/437c53cb/X3/ORION MONOCEROS 10K web-X3.jpg

Edit: Please scroll down the thread for an important improvement to the image.

Olly, Paul and Peter.

Edited January 4 by ollypenrice

[step_hen]

Wow. So much to see. Amazing work Olly and team. I've just bought a Samyang 135!

Stephen 

[Mr Spock]

Quite spectacular 👍This site needs a 'wow' adding to the reactions, 'like' hardly seems adequate.

[ollypenrice]

14 minutes ago, step_hen said:

Wow. So much to see. Amazing work Olly and team. I've just bought a Samyang 135!

Stephen 

Good choice. Combined with Star Xterminator or Starnett++ it is a real demon. Do not buy the Wega adapter. It is junk.

Olly

[callisto]

What can I say... amazing 😯

[Laurin Dave]

Marvellous image Olly..  I think you need to get it printed up and placed on the side wall of Les Granges!  Great detail at full res... spotted a little Crab, a trace of  Spaghetti plus countless more objects which this image places in context.

Dave

[emyliano2000]

Absolutely incredible! 😍😍

Emil

[Elp]

(three letter acronym). Wow.

[ollypenrice]

22 minutes ago, Laurin Dave said:

Marvellous image Olly..  I think you need to get it printed up and placed on the side wall of Les Granges!  Great detail at full res... spotted a little Crab, a trace of  Spaghetti plus countless more objects which this image places in context.

Dave

More pasta would be nice but, unfortunately, it really doesn't show well in OSC. You never can tell. Some Ha targets come out in a blaze of light but a few play hard to get and we don't have a NB option at present.

I was curious about the substantial nebula below the Monkey Head. Large and bright, I had no idea what it was and had to ask Paul. It's Sh2-261 and it gets next to no attention. I found this nicely done, archived image on here and, again, the comments express the same surprise and unfamiliarity. I certainly think we should do it in the RASA and blend it in here, too. 

Olly

Edited January 3 by ollypenrice
Sh2-261

[Red Chilli]

Awesome image! I love the composition

[woldsman]

Incredible image - thanks for sharing. 

[tomato]

Phew, relieved to see you didn’t pick up the Spaghetti  Nebula in all it’s glory or else I would be selling up now.😉

A wondrous image, as always.

[jjohnson3803]

Amazing.  The forum *does* need a "Wow!"  emoji.

[WolfieGlos]

Absolutely tremendous image Olly and co 👏

The colour and depth is superb, and this must be APOD worthy surely. I agree with the Wow emoji sentiments! 

Ive never noticed before how the cone nebula with its surrounds looks a bit like the head of a flower, with the stem running down to the rosette.

I suppose this is the extension you were on about in an earlier post. What’s next, up to the Pleiades or down to the Seagull! You must have enough data for a “northern hemisphere” mosaic by now 🤣

[Mal22]

Well this is just ridiculous…

An absolutely incredible image. So much to see and so much depth. Wonderful stuff. 

Edited January 3 by Mal22

[Soupir94]

Sensational image.👏

[Steve Ward]

Another stunner sir ... 

 

What's the dark nebula with 'eyes' in the top-right corner ? , it reminded me immediately of the Black rabbit from Watership Down .

[bottletopburly]

Stunning olly just stunning 🤩, well done 👏 

[ollypenrice]

22 minutes ago, Steve Ward said:

Another stunner sir ... 

 

What's the dark nebula with 'eyes' in the top-right corner ? , it reminded me immediately of the Black rabbit from Watership Down .

I'll look into this...

Olly

[maw lod qan]

I think it's obvious what you are doing with your spare time!

That is an incredible image!

[ollypenrice]

9 hours ago, Steve Ward said:

Another stunner sir ... 

 

What's the dark nebula with 'eyes' in the top-right corner ? , it reminded me immediately of the Black rabbit from Watership Down .

Paul spotted your question, Steve, and emailed me with this information:

The nebula at the top right of O2M is a combination of several LDNs - 1534, 1532, 1528, 1527 and the lower "eye" is IC 2087.

Olly

 

 

Edited January 4 by ollypenrice
typo

[Steve Ward]

1 hour ago, ollypenrice said:

Paul spotted your question, Steve, and emailed me with this information:

The nebula at the top right of O2M is a combination of several LDNs - 1534, 1532, 1528, 1527 and the lower "eye" is IC 2087.

Olly

 

 

Thank you sir , and Paul ... 

[tomato]

Just on the question of the Sy135’s (and the RASA8) amazing ability to capture this much signal in 2 hrs, I’m wondering just how much your dark sky contributes to this. I’ve just watched a video on the AIC about remote imaging in Chile, the sky at the site records a SQM of 22, from memory your location is not far from this?

[simmo39]

Well another wonderfull image, so much work! I cant get one nights worth of data!

[ollypenrice]

20 hours ago, tomato said:

Phew, relieved to see you didn’t pick up the Spaghetti  Nebula in all it’s glory or else I would be selling up now.😉

A wondrous image, as always.

Confession time: I hadn't realized that the frame included the Spaghetti.  On reading your comment, I tracked down an old horse-drawn computer on which I had 33x15 minutes of Canon 200L Ha data. Just the job! Here we go:

Big one here: https://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Emission-Nebulae/i-Tqb6kBP/A

Olly