Meissa or Lambda Orionis Nebula HaRGB.

[ollypenrice]

This is the top part of my 'Great Orion Project.'

The bright red giant is Betelguese. This is 2 panels at 85mm in a Samyang camera lens and Atik 4000, 15x10mins RGB per panel and 12 hours of Ha. The nebula is huge and very faint. It will need double the RGB time to stand up at full size but with a 6 panel final shot I may compromise on that! This is only a quick experiment.

Olly

Edited December 11, 2010 by ollypenrice

[JCJC]

Looking great Olly! Keep going on the Orion project, it's gonna be awesome!

Jordan

[MartinB]

This is going to be some pic!!!!

[Steve 1962]

Stunning Olly - please excuse my ignorance - how did you get 8 point diffraction spikes??

[ollypenrice]

Stunning Olly - please excuse my ignorance - how did you get 8 point diffraction spikes??

Skill and daring!!

No, it is the iris in the camera lens from stopping down to around f5. I quite like it but if it looks dodgy on the final image I will run around the big stars in the TEC140 and Registar them in over the diffraction effects.

Olly

Edited December 10, 2010 by ollypenrice

[Tim]

Phwoooaaarr!

As they say

[R Fisher]

Wow! Going to be a fantastic final image

[barkis]

An award winner in the making here Olly, it has that potential, so take it all the way. It is going to be a belter.

Hope you and the good lady enjoyed the show in Toulon by the way.

Ron.

[Earl]

This is why I want to be an imager !

Cant wait to see the finished piece!

[ollypenrice]

An award winner in the making here Olly, it has that potential, so take it all the way. It is going to be a belter.

Hope you and the good lady enjoyed the show in Toulon by the way.

Ron.

Thanks Ron and indeed we did. Rob made us feel like royalty...

Olly

[Starblazer]

Keep it coming mate, that is shaping up to be awesome!!

[ollypenrice]

Sorry mods, BooBoo. Please remove! French keyboards are a nightmare...

Olly

Edited December 11, 2010 by ollypenrice

[ollypenrice]

I have replaced the image with a tweaked version to improve colour balance in the shadows and star colour.

Olly

[step_hen]

Wow- cant wait to see the finished project. This looks like an angel fish, or is it just me!?

Stephen

[RobH]

Superb Olly

I knew there was nebulousity around Betelgeuse, but haven't seen anything like this before.

Cheers

Rob.

[pietervdv]

Awesome shot Olly! How did you combine the HA? Just used it as luminance or did you mix it with red?

regards,

Pieter

[ollypenrice]

Awesome shot Olly! How did you combine the HA? Just used it as luminance or did you mix it with red?

regards,

Pieter

Thanks to all. Pieter, Ha was added to red at 100 percent in blend mode lighten and then at 30 percent in blend mode normal and finally at 10 percent as luminance. Still experimenting...

Olly

[Beyond_Vision]

Well thats one heck of an experiment, top draw stuff olly

Regards

Kevin

[sheri_barri]

Amazing image Olly! The pinpoint sharpness is superb!

[cloudbuster]

a beauty of a pic!

[Catanonia]

Fantastic work Olly, never seen this before. Wonder what this would look like full mosiac in Ha.

[peter shah]

an amazing shot Olly the first thing that strikes me is the amount of stars....then you look at the scale its massive!!

[ollypenrice]

Fantastic work Olly, never seen this before. Wonder what this would look like full mosiac in Ha.

Rather like this!

Olly

http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Photography/Widefield-images-including/ALL-V1cropNEWLAMBDA/1094349246_cE8rH-X2.jpg

[Ande]

An absolutely stunning photograph. Have you ever revisited Meissa and got in a little closer?  I would love to see your efforts if you have.  Such a gorgeous region of the sky 🙂

[scotty38]

The thread is so old that nebula doesn't exist any longer 🙂 🙂