SH2-114 Flying Dragon nebula

[RickS]

A dim and mysterious HII region. There's a bigger version on Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/full/321205/0/

Constructive criticism appreciated as always.

Capture details follow...

Captured at SRO, Sep-Nov, 2017

Objects in image:
SH2-114, SH2-113, Lan 384/KN 26/PN G084.7-08.0 (quadrupolar PN)

Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (Drizzled to double res)
Exposures: 23x1200s R, 24x1200s G, 17x1200s B, 46x1800s Ha, 12x1800 Oiii, 27x1800 Sii (64.8 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5

Acquisition credit: Scott Johnson, Augusto Hernandez, John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Jose Mtanous and Rick Stevenson
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson

[willik]

Very nice image but a lot of red for me looks like fire but still looks good after hall they are dragons.
Martin

[Placidus]

Very fine in both senses. Beautifully done. Reminiscent of parts of the Vela SNR, where there be dragons.

[RickS]

Thanks, Martin. There is a lot of Ha! Almost no Oiii and a small amount of Sii...



Thanks, M&T!

[gregbradley]

Nicely done Rick.

It looks like a Supernova Remnant.

Greg.

[RickS]

Thanks, Greg. I have found a couple of sources that say it resembles a SNR but nobody willing to say it definitely is one. There's almost no Oiii which seems unusual for a SNR.

[strongmanmike]

That's a unique, rather beautiful and intriguing image Rick, nicely processed mate, the filaments are very 3D :thumbsup:

Mike

[RickS]

Ta Mikey! Most of the credit goes to SH2-114 for being so photogenic but I did try to bring out the best in the data.

[RickS]

Here's the tiny quadrupolar planetary neb, Kn 26, in SHO palette and upsized somewhat. It's only a tiddler at about 35 x 80 arcsec in size.

[Camelopardalis]

:eyepop:

[strongmanmike]

Huh! Spotted that in the full res but in OIII dominant process (?) it looks more like a PN now :thumbsup:

Mike

[Paul Haese]

You're putting together some really unique images of late Rick. I really like the emphasis on the sharp edges of the shock waves. Lovely colour too which looks very much how film images once looked.

[alan meehan]

awesome Rick I have not seen this before well done

[RickS]

Thanks, Dunk... I think :question: :lol:



Lots of Ha and a little Oiii and Sii but I tried to make it look a little less green.



Thanks, Paul!



Ta, Alan. Missed you at Astrofest. Hope all is well...

[RobF]

:bowdown: :cheers: :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Rob :)

[Atmos]

It is a great image to look at in full res, quite a dynamic image :)

[Andy01]

Crikey, I just watched the amazing Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 4 and that's one fine flying dragon you have there reminicent of the one in the show!

Top shot Rick - Paradolia rules again! :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Superb field well processed too. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[markas]

Beautiful image beautifully processed. Amazingly clean at full res.

Mark

[RickS]

Thanks, Colin!



Ta, Andy :lol:



Thanks, Marc.



Thanks, Mark.

[ozstronomer]

Rick, congrats on Astrobin IOTD, well deserved

Fantastic image :thumbsup:

Geoff

[Slawomir]

Awesome work Rick, as always setting the bar very high :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks very much, Geoff & Suavi!

[Regulus]

Oh man, that's intense! And i really like it.
I thought you might have blown the fine detail, but the hi-res put paid to that idea. In fact it hi-liights the filamentary structure in that brightest part on the right.
Star colours are good too.
Very nicely done.

Trev

[RickS]

Thanks very much, Trev!

[strongmanmike]

As I sometimes like to do, I was just browsing some older image posts Rick and was checking this shot out again, its a very cool image, top work I really like the stars in this :thumbsup: similar looking feature to RCW114

Mike

[RickS]

Thanks, Mike! I just had a big print done - it looks great.

[strongmanmike]

Photo..?? :shrug: :thumbsup:

[Placidus]

That's exquisite, Rick.

Looks similar to a tiny part of the Vela SNR. Perhaps post snr shock waves are prone to dracogenesis.

[rustigsmed]

Looks fantastic Rick!

[Octane]

That is simply astounding, Rick.

The composition is absolutely perfect, too!

H

[RickS]

Still need to get it framed, Mike, but will see what I can do when I get back home (away on a business trip at present.)



Thanks, M&T!



Ta, Russ.



Thanks very much, H!

[Bart]

This is a really cool image. Lots to like, colour, framing etc!

[RickS]

Thanks!