The Fox and Cone.

[ollypenrice]

Sounds like a pub. I'm never quite sure which bit the fox fur is supposed to be, or rather I can ony occasionally see it. Anyway, five hours with the OSC Atik 4000 and three with the mono and 7nm Baader Ha. (Great filter) in the Baby Q. I also shot a few hours of OSC at 950mm in the 5 inch but sadly either a focus slip or sky failure made a lot of it useless. The good bits did look nice though so I might try again. I used about 90 mins of that. Nine below, last night. Brrr.

Sorry about the bad crop. Hadn't noticed that.

Olly

[astrokat]

wow well done that looks good olly always look forward to opening a thread by you always impresive

toby

[Imahumanbeing]

Hey Olly, fantastic picture, beautiful.

All the best

Jamie

[JCJC]

Great image Olly, very smooth.

Jordan

[Deneb]

err, wheres the pic ?

[MikeD]

Awesome Olly, Great colour and detail.

Mike.

[JCJC]

Nadeem, that happened to me at first, the image didn't show.

After refreshing a few times the image showed up? Not sure why.

Jordan

[harry page]

I am with nadeem Can't see a thing

Harry

[Taff]

Hi Olly' That's a brill capture lots of details there, great coloures.Mark

[Rob998]

All I get is a red cross, tried refreshing lots of times & logging out & back in.

[NickH]

Nice nice nice!

[Hypernova]

I can't see an pic, just a broken image icon

[Tim]

Hmm, I cant see it either.

RobH did this region last year Olly, and the fox fur stands out very well, and you can see why, I wonder if its on his website?

[ollypenrice]

Sorry about the problems. It may be because of maintenance on the smugmug site last night. I'll post a fresh link here.

Olly

[russ]

That's a stunning image Olly, so much detail and so many colours. Awesome!

[ncjunk]

Ahh at last I can see the light!

Nice pic olly!

Neil C

[Rob998]

Stunning!

[ollypenrice]

Cheers all. Glad it's working again. Tom talked my out of my sultry magenta look so here's a more onventional rendition.

Olly

[NickH]

Even better!

[dark knight]

Another stunner Olly, amazes me how you keep managing to raise the imaging bar,,surely they don't come any better, can't wait to see your next project. In the words of Craig Revell Hallwood, "Fab-u-lous Darling"

[LukeSkywatcher]

That is soooooooooo cool. I can clearly see a fox in that image. The cone is on the right and looks like the fox nose?.

[roundycat]

you have some nice colour and detail there Olly but for eight hours I would have thought more detail would have been on show. Here is one http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/93047-cone-area.html I did a few nights ago, 3 hours at f8, STL/TMB.

Dennis

[Tim]

Lovely Olly, I'd be interested to see just the Ha result in comparison if you get 5 mins

Looking at Dennis' pic you can see why they call it a fox fur, I just wondered if there is a bit more detail in your Ha subs alone?

[Deneb]

Well Olly, it looks like you have win POTW again,

[ollypenrice]

Hi All,

Here's the Ha but pushed a bit harder than the version I used. It is quite noisy and so I wouldn't use it pushed this hard. I really hate noise. This is an image taken with a guest so for my own buzz I would take enough data to sharpen and contrast more than this but that would be at the expense of an other image in terms of time. But I agree, it could carry more detail. However, I know of no way of retaining all the Ha detail in an image which is rich in colour. I'm listening if anyone out there does know!!!

Olly

http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Nebulae-and-clusters/hAFORrEGISTARhicontrast/743321387_sMrpY-XL.jpg