Half chicken and chips

[RickS]

A partial Running Chicken and nuggets. I lied about the chips...

Captured at Yass, Australia 5-24 April, 2018 (Martin Pugh's lovely gear.)

Scope: Planewave CDK17 @ f/6.8 = 2939mm FL
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STXL-11002/AOX
Filters: Astrodon LRGB gen II, 3nm NB
Image scale: 0.63 arcsec/pixel (drizzled up)
Exposures: 14x1800s Ha, 14x1800s Oiii, 14x1800s Sii (21 hours)

Larger version on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/344188/?nc=user

Hope you like it. May be too colourful for folks with subtle tastes :lol:

[multiweb]

Finger licking good. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Like frogs legs? Thanks, Marc :)

[peter_4059]

Looks like an angry ginger cat wrapped up in blue wool. Nicely processed, Rick.

[RickS]

Thanks, Peter! That description creates some interesting mental images :lol:

[Stevec35]

Looks brilliant Rick!

Steve

[RickS]

Thanks, Steve!

[atalas]

:jawdrop::thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Louie!

[Ryderscope]

Fantastic. I see the eye of Sauron swallowing an angry cat.

[gregbradley]

Wow Rick, you make such vibrant images. Trademark excellent processing and a striking interesting image.

Greg.

[cometcatcher]

It's very beautiful. I don't usually like the look of narrow band but this is quite spectacular.

[Placidus]

Absolutely stunning. Beautiful contrast.

[willik]

Its out of this world Rick beauty
Martin

[JA]

Great Job Rick.I love the colours and especially the almost iridescent blues/green. :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[RickS]

Thanks, Rodney. Even better :lol:



Thanks, Greg!



Thanks, Kevin. I think this is one of those objects that has a nice balance of the NB wavelengths.



Thanks, M&T!



Thanks, Martin.



Thanks, JA! I resisted the temptation to eliminate the green and go for the more conventional gold/turquoise look. GTL has impact but loses a lot of the subtle colours.

[peter_4059]

and just enough Dijon.

[LewisM]

Can I have that with a side of coleslaw and potato and gravy please?

I take back - temporarily - any comments in regards to the effluence of whales :lol:

[RickS]

That's not helping with my intermittent fast this morning, Peter :)



That's a lot to swallow, Lewis :lol:

[Atmos]

Martin is pumping out some seriously nice data!
I've been playing around with a HaRGB version of this for a while and it definitely lends itself to narrowband over RGB. There are a lot of detailed areas that just appear washed out in the RGB version.

Nicely processed Rick :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Colin! Was looking at subs of the Keyhole that Martin collected last night. Based on the FWHMs it's going to make an awesome Fickle Finger :lol:

[strongmanmike]

Very nicely put together Rick. Lots of interesting structure and I like the way you have managed to present it as a tri colour image rather than the usual fall into making it bichromatic, very colourful and even a bit artistic :thumbsup: My only (minor) suggestion, if you feel like tweaking it.. is that the stars look a bit muted, like their colour has been removed and this has washed them out a tad and made them look a bit dull...if this was fixable it would look even better I recon and make the scene sparkle a bit more :thumbsup:

Really great shot regardless though :)

Mike

[RickS]

Thanks, Mike. You are right about the stars. They are basically white (as result of the NB process that I use) with a little background colour that has leaked in. I have some RGB data to colour them but I wasn't happy with my first attempt to do that. I do plan to try again...

Cheers,
Rick.

[strongmanmike]

It's a great image mate :thumbsup:... and I guess I have mentioned muted stars in some of your images before (have I ever mentioned Decon..? :question:...naaaah). I am talking about the intrinsic intensity or brightness of the stars, it seems to get lost occasionally, what do you think does this? I see the colour leaking you refer to as well....just a minor possible improvement :love2:

Mike

[RickS]

Hi Mike,

Ignoring colour, I do like to reduce the stars so they don't compete with the main subject. Probably just a difference in taste :) It's not a result of decon which tends to sharpen the stars...

Cheers,
Rick.

[strongmanmike]

He he the Decon comment was just a wittle joke cus I have been known to bang on about it :P :) so, no, it wasn't decon, and I wasn't referring to the size of the stars, that looks ok, just their dull appearance, dull as in not "shiny" white (or coloured)...does that make sense :question:...or am I just rambling :lol:

Mike

[RickS]

Yep, makes sense, thanks Mike.

[archioptic]

This is excellent, well done. Love the bok globules.

[RickS]

Thanks, Nathan.

[John K]

That's a great image and something to definitely to aspire towards.

Clear skies.

John K.

[RobC]

Great image Rick. Forgot the chips break out the champagne.

[RickS]

Thanks, John.



Ta, Rob. Just so long as it isn't that FG Port you had at Astrofest :lol:

[ozstronomer]

Great image Rick, beautiful colour pallet and well presented.

The smaller stars are a nice touch

Cheers Geoff

[RickS]

Thanks, Geoff!

[Paul Haese]

Great colours Rick and the detail is good too.

[topheart]

Wow!
Seriously awesome processing!!
Cheers,
Tim

[RickS]

Thanks, Paul.



Thanks, Tim!