Cocoon nebula and part of B168

[peter shah]

Ive been working on this one a few nights now....i will probably give this one a reprocess and get some more data when the skies get darker

10x612s in Red 10x533s in Blue and 10x420s in green

thanks for looking

[ncjunk]

Great image and nicely framed as well!

[RobH]

Nice work Peter.

The background is so full of stars it's almost solid!

Cheers

Rob

[peter shah]

The background is so full of stars it's almost solid!

Cheers

Rob

probably noise with this warm weather:blob8:

[cloudbuster]

what a beauty! well done peter!

[Deneb]

A beautiful Cocoon Peter, I take it you've got the other part of B168 ?

The Pink Nebula & nice contrast of stars do for me...

Nadeem.

[peter shah]

I take it you've got the other part of B168 ?

Nadeem.

Nah unfortunatly......im going to try and get some more data for this field first, i also need to do make a bad pixel map for the for these frames so i can reduce the noise in the dark areas....... i will be doing a reprocess in the next few days;)

[kris h]

Great image Peter thats the first time that iv'e seen that nebula

[steppenwolf]

A very nice Cocoon Nebula but it is the wonderful star colours that really caught my eye.

[Steve 1962]

Now that's a standard to aspire to!

Beautiful

Steve

[Beyond_Vision]

A very rich and colourful image Pete, the star field is amazing.

Regards

Kevin

[peter shah]

many thanks for all the coments

I managed three lots of data now on this one....I think ive been looking at it for too long now! The star field is very rich so ive done more of a star reduction than i usually do

the exposure times were 15x612s in red, 15x420s in green and 15x533s in blue

the noise level in the faint areas is much smoother, but im still getting these clusters of bad pixels.....the bad pixel map doesnt seem to match very well...i may have to read up on it.

any comments welcome

thanks peter

[ollypenrice]

A very nice Cocoon Nebula but it is the wonderful star colours that really caught my eye.

Mine too. I also like the way you have colour in the dark dust and the fact that the presence of thinning dust either side of the main lane is evidenced by the golden tinge of the stars on its border. I haven't seen that before.

Olly

[Neil27]

Wonderful image, so many stars and great looking colours.

[peter shah]

Mine too. I also like the way you have colour in the dark dust and the fact that the presence of thinning dust either side of the main lane is evidenced by the golden tinge of the stars on its border. I haven't seen that before.

Olly

i noticed that too while processing

[Psychobilly]

Looking superb Pete...

I'm stuggling processing images with really "rich" starfields especially when they get downsized or posting on the forum...

I still have your Reduction actions as one of the tools at my disposal...

Peter...

[George]

Great image Peter, looks like its chomping its way thru that star field

[Euan]

Amazing image

The star colours are great, and there's tons of detail in the nebula