Ic 2118 : The Witch Head Nebula (lrgb)

[Aggelos Kechagias]

Hello there folks.

This is my latest work on a very difficult target.

Take a look here http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=12077

Thanks for looking

info:

Locations : Corinth - Greece & Parnon mountain

Telescopes : astro-tech 65ed quadruplet for RGB + William Optics ed72 for Luminance

Ccd : QHY 9

Mount : ASA DDM60

Guiding : unguided

Field flattener : -

Gain/Offset : 30% - 106

Temp : -25

Exposures : RGB bin 2x2 10x300sec Luminance bin 2x2 17x600 &

bin 1x1 4x600

Calibration files : Darks - Bias - Flats - Dark Flats .

Applications : Nebulosity - Photoshop - Maxim - Pixinsight - Cartes du ciel - Autoslew.

[RobH]

Another great image from you Aggelos

Cheers

Rob

[Boren]

It really doesn't get much better than this!

Lots of good signal, perfect contrast, wonderful tight colorful stars - great.

I'd recommend a little less noise reduction (just a LITTLE less) and a little more brightness in the shadows. IMHO this will turn this image from an A+ to an A++.

Very pleasing result!

Cheers,

Harel;

[JCJC]

Flippin' eck, that's brilliant Aggelos!

Well done.

Jordan

[prokyon]

Wow, awesome!

I am hounding the witch up to now. Only unsuccessful attempts.

Cheers

Werner

[Shibby]

I can't believe how strong the signal is; isn't this supposed to be a faint nebula?! Looks like you used an almighty flash gun Great image!

[MartinB]

Amazing, you must have some wonderful skies

[johnnychaos]

impressive. don't think I've ever even seen that before!

[tiwar]

Thats a belter, i can actually see why its called the Witch Head..

T x

[Mikea]

impressive. don't think I've ever even seen that before!

Ditto that. Nicely done sir!

[Rob_Jn]

Superb image Aggelos!

Rob.

[wallwalker]

What an absolutey beautiful image!!

[Catanonia]

WOW !!!!!!!!

Are those colours true ????

That is amazing and definately POW material - Admins !!!!

[peter shah]

just stunning:glasses1:

[johnh]

Strongest detail I have seen of this big object.

JohnH.

[Tim]

Just to add to the praise, lovely detail.

Please can you make sure to post a smaller version as a preview here on SGL? That way we can include a link to any images and a thumbnail that we think are worth mentioning as part of our Picture of the Week threads.

Thanks for sharing with us

Tim

[dc509]

wonderful image! New one for me too...

d

[Aggelos Kechagias]

Thanks so much for your kind comments

[steppenwolf]

Another really deep 'Witch', truly beautiful!

[NickRose2006]

What an amazing image. I'll have to try out this target one of these days.

[Tim]

pssst

http://stargazerslounge.com/picture-week-competitions/127082-picture-week-23rd-january-2011-a.html#post1663152

[MikeWilson]

Congratulations on a beautiful image!

[arrturro]

Amazing image.

[ollypenrice]

The sheer strength of this image is incredible.

Olly

[Uranium235]

Unguided? Wow... thats cool!