Sharpless 101 - The Tulip Nebula

[steppenwolf]

Sharpless' objects may be a little obscure but they represent an interesting imaging challenge. This is one of my favourite Sharpless objects taken tonight through my 8" Skywatcher Newtonian using an SXVF-M25C ccd and Baader MPCC:-

[steve51450]

this is a 1st for me, so another one added to my list, looks like a good narrowband subject to

lovely image, with a gentle touch

[Ben Ritchie]

That's a good'un - new one for me too

[Aza]

Thats a lot of stars!

Nicely processed to bring out the subtle colours.

[Whippy]

That's a cracking Tulip Steve, the wider field gives you all the local faint background nebulosity that you don't normally get to see .

Tony..

[MartinB]

That's a beautiful shot Steve, there's so much going on in it. The brighter stars have a cyan hue, is that an LP filter?

[Spitfire]

That's another target added to the list

Nice image, well done.

[steppenwolf]

The brighter stars have a cyan hue, is that an LP filter?

Hi Martin, I don't think it is the LP filter (Hutech IDAS) as I generally find this to be pretty neutral. The stars are 'saturation boosted) along with the nebula itself but that should pretty faithfully pick up the underlying colour so I suspect that the blue and yellow stars in the images, although boosted, do represent what was there.

[SGT_Ranger_1/75]

Amazing photo, this is my new desktop background..