IC443 Jellyfish nebula in Ha

[MartinB]

Recently bought an SXM26C and had a couple of good nights using except that I'm having some significant teething problems which I'm sorting out with SX. So last night it was back to my trusty QSI 532 for an Ha capture of the Jellyfish. The plan is to combine this with wider field OSC data from the M26 if I can get it sorted.

This is 10 x 20 mins Ha. QSI 532 and Tak FSQ 106

Captured, calibrated and combined with Maxim. Deconvolved in CCD stack and finshed in PS

[Sparrow]

Nice image - My friend has been working on this target and I know from what he's said that it's not easy to process without the bright star becoming over blown. I'm impressed.

[Whippy]

Very nice indeed mate , always nice to see the Jellyfish!

Tony..

[ollypenrice]

Tremendous signal strength, Martin. That is really intense and contrasty. Do you think PixInsight could have a look at the wide halo around the bright star? DBE?

But that is going top be great with colour. It is great as it is, BTW.

Olly

[Taff]

Hi Martin' What a nice capture of the neb,clear with you.Mark

[MartinB]

Tremendous signal strength, Martin. That is really intense and contrasty. Do you think PixInsight could have a look at the wide halo around the bright star? DBE?

But that is going top be great with colour. It is great as it is, BTW.

Olly

Thanks guys. Not sure that DBE would help greatly Olly. Apart from a reduction using the distort filter in PS I've not done much with it (other than taking out the huge bloom). The distort had to avoid much of the extended brightness because it made a mess of the surrounding stars. When I add in the colour I will go to work on it but I don't want it to look as if it has been battered into submission!

[Luke]

Hats off, very , very nice.

[Revs]

Very nice. It's got a real depth to it and plenty of detail. Well done

[johnh]

Lovely filaments Martin and one that looks like its name.

JohnH.

[mrbryanmarshall]

Very nice. I'm loving the Mono images. This is a tricky one to image due to the bright star. Well done.

[Helen]

That's gorgeous Martin!

Helen

[philj]

That is nice, loads of detail and subtle processing, nice

Philj

[peter shah]

very deep image with super detail....top stuff martin

[R Fisher]

Excellent mono image, must have a go.

[steppenwolf]

Lovely and deep, Martin - there is some great detail in there.

[Boren]

Hi Martin,

This is very very good (as if you needed me to tell you )

Wonderful detail and superb signal.

I learned the hard way that Ha on this DSO isn't enough. Since it's a supernova remenant, it actually includes many gasses (and consequently many colors) which aren't covered by Ha. But Ha is the way to go to give this object its infra-structure, upon which the rest of the image is fit.

Cheers,

Harel

[MartinB]

Hi Martin,

I learned the hard way that Ha on this DSO isn't enough. Since it's a supernova remenant, it actually includes many gasses (and consequently many colors) which aren't covered by Ha. But Ha is the way to go to give this object its infra-structure, upon which the rest of the image is fit.

Thanks Harel. Quite apart from all the gases it needs colour to change that big bright mag 3 star into it's warm gold which contrasts so nicely with the red. I've thought about getting SII and OIII as well but not sure whether I'll bother this year. It's going to be around for a few years yet!