NGC281 - Pacman Nebula in HST palette

[GordonH]

Hi All

This was taken over three nights and is of NGC281. It was taken with

Takahashi FSQ106ED at f5

Paramount ME

Starlight Xpress SXVF H9

autoguided by Lodestar and OAG

12x30 minutes Ha, 7x30 minutes OIII and 12x30 minutes SII using 5nm filters

The OIII and 3 of the SII sub frames were shot last night under a full moon, 9 of the SII sub frames were shot under very poor seeing and transparency conditions thanks to some very high thin cloud and half of the sub frames from that evening had to be rejected so I am quite pleased with the overall result.

Gradient removal was used but no sharpening, this was mainly levels, curves, contrast and a minor shadows/highlighs adjustment and selective colour

The full size high resolution version can be found at my pbase site at the following link

NGC281 - Pacman Nebula in HST palette photo - Gordon Haynes photos at pbase.com

The Ha version can be seen in the image gallery of my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk

along with a previous attempt at this object with the HST palette 2 years ago

Thanks for looking

Best wishes

Gordon

[Suffolkgazer]

All I can say is stunning.

[Tim]

You've nailed it this time Gordon

[Petervde]

Simply beautiful. Nothing to add...

Peter

[ollypenrice]

Yes, very little room left for constructive criticism! It is spot on.

Olly