Horsehead/Flame/M42 from Kelling

[SteveL]

After a whopping 110 days without getting outside with my astro kit (various reasons), the skies cleared at Kelling on Saturday and allowed me to grab some imaging time again. It was also the first light for my newly aquired Borg 60, which performed just as I had imagined it would

Here is one of the two images I am working on at the moment.

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Borg 60 @ f/3.8

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 8 x 600s, Baader 7nm Ha (51 bias, 51 flats)

Orchestrated: CDD Commander

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight

Unsure how this will look on your monitor, it looks OK on my calibrated laptop, OK on my calibrated secondary monitor, but the jpg version looks much darker for some reason.

(Click on image for larger version)

[russ]

wow incredible image Steve. So smooth but highly detailed.

[Ben Ritchie]

Fantastic, Steve - that was the image I always hoped to take with it

[Ford Prefect]

FANTASTIC mate, cant belive thats a first light image. You really do set the bar high!!!!

[SteveL]

Its only an hour an 20 minutes on target (between it clearing the tree/cloud line and the end of nautical dark), cant wait until I can grab this from my garden for some extended time.

[Ben Ritchie]

Another 80 minutes would mosaic up to M78 nicely too...

[SteveL]

ooo..... I need a wider FoV.... Borg 45 anyone?

[cardconvict]

holy hell that is awesome

[Ford Prefect]

Its only an hour an 20 minutes on target (between it clearing the tree/cloud line and the end of nautical dark), cant wait until I can grab this from my garden for some extended time.

or maybe somebody’s else’s Garden ???

[just looking]

Wow Fantastic

and Im in heaven just looking at jupiters moons through the scope

That would blow me away.lol

[Euan]

Amazing stuff, some FOV and well. That's so wide you could do the whole of Orion mega-deep with a mosaic in CCDC

Some amount of faint wispy stuff in there, especially underneath M42

[Psychobilly]

Hmmmmm.......

Thats so nice... cant wait for Orion to be up at a sensible time...

Peter...

[Ant]

I saw the first stretched sub in Maxim and new it was going to be a good'un - but blimey that's good.

I cannot believe the amount of nebulae around M42, that area really is awash with the stuff.

I could barely get the flame and HH in the same field of view.

Cheers

Ant

[Shibby]

Hurrah, Orion's back in town. And he's made quite an entrance with you image Steve!

[Dave]

Absolutely wonderful.

[steppenwolf]

Lovely image, Steve and a real poke in the eye for those who say it is a waste of time taking narrowband images with with an OSC camera!

[adamsp123]

Stunning shot, the detail is excellent and that wide FOV works so well.

[harry page]

Hi

Glad you got yourself out of the tent

Very nice work with a OSC , did you just extract the red

Harry

[Kai]

Ahh the now traditional Kelling M42

Very nice Steve , i really do like Ha images these days for me they seem more "real" that the colour images produced.

[lguise]

I was waiting to see this and it is stunning! So much detail, look forwrd to the final version

Linton

[Doc]

Simply mind blowing Steve. Are you going to add colour at a later date?

[MikeD]

Stunning FOV you have there Steve, can't wait to see what you come up with when you can give this shot more time.

Mike.

[Revs]

Those little Borgs really seem to deliver. Superb detail there, great shot

[Polar Bear]

Hi Steve, looks rather brilliant on my monitor ! Looking at the image as a 'photograph' it has more impact in the smaller version, very inspiring.

Paul

[Paxo]

Stunning field of view Steve, and well worth the wait. Perhaps next year that tall tree may have an "accident" and you'll not have to wait so late.

Steve