Cocoon and Barnards Dark Nebula B168

[Beyond_Vision]

It seems like an age since my last image this was taken last Sunday night and last night. Both sessions were cut short by cloud. Exposure 16 x 10 mins with CCD with a neodymium filter fitted .



I then combined some previous data from 2009 with registar. Exposure 49 x 10mins.



Regards

Kevin

[malp]

A lovely image, the dark lane stands out well.

[ncjunk]

Nice images, the dark lanes look good and the neb around the star near the cocoon looks good in the second one.

[peter shah]

a super sot star shape looks great...... looks like its going to give you some stunning results

[madjohn]

Fantastic image, lovely pinpoint stars.

John

[ollypenrice]

Very sound indeed. I like the unforced look of the nebula, unforced yet packed with detail. The dark lane is also a tota lsuccess.

Olly

[johnh]

That is gorgeous indeed without tasteless processing of the Cocoon making it too bold, very understated and better for it.

JohnH.

[ollypenrice]

I quite agree with John's comment above and see this defect in my own version!

Olly

[shaunster]

Picture of the week

[beamish]

Very nice Kevin ! Nice FOV too

[steppenwolf]

A lovely with the drak lane standing out nicely. Good star shapes too.

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks for all your great comments. Really pleased with the results from the field flattener

Regards

Kevin

[Fay]

Very nice Kevin, enjoyed looking at it. Nice stars & colours, lovely from edge to edge.

Fay

[RobH]

Not surprised you're pleased Kevin. The flattener has worked a treat, and you've produced a lovely image.

Cheers

Rob

[nigelwr]

Super image!

[robertm]

What a lovely image, those dark dust lanes really stand out. The star colours seem to stand out more in the top image and the Cocoon more in the lower but I like them both. What was the camera?

The stars really do seem to look sharp from edge to edge.

Robert

[Sam]

Brilliant image Kevin!

[Euan]

This is a cracker Kevin, it's great what Registar can do with old data

You can see the difference in the sharpness towards the edges, the first one looks tighter, although the second one is a better image due to more signal

[Euan]

If you send me one signal sub from each session I can run it through CCD inspector to show you the field flatness difference (that's if you don't have it already)

[Beyond_Vision]

Cheers Euan I will take you up on that offer when I'm home on the weekend

Regards

Kevin