Why the name?..well, when the raw Ha subs started coming down on this baby, they immediately made me think of all those fabulous B&W photos of great comets last century, so....
Also known as, SH2-312, it is a small part of the faint outer area of an enormous bubble of H-alpha that includes the more famous and brighter Vela SNR/Gum nebula complex, in Vela.
There was almost zero OIII detectable in a gaussian stretched 15min bin 2X2 sub...so, I didn't bother with collecting any.
I haven't seen an image of this feature before and yes, I went with strong colour...just how I felt
Beautiful composition and stunning colour palette Mike!
Why do the stars have haloes around them though?
Excellent detective work to present something new - well done!
Thanks Andy, there are some weird shapes and forms out there and certainly plenty of extended targets to suit a 4deg X 4deg FOV too
Not totally sure but I think the halo's are from somewhere within filters>last glass element>chip chamber glass>chip cover slip? They don't bother me, actually they can create more depth in some scenes, by accentuating some of the brighter stars, bit like those famous wide field Akira Fuji photos
A beautiful, enchanting image of something very rarely photographed.
I see the skull of a bird, complete with sharp beak and nostrils.
I'm trying to match the stars in the image with stars in the atlas, with the thought of one day having a peek myself. Not having my usual success. Simbad unhelpfully shows only blackness. What's the J2K RA/Dec of your image, and which edge is north?
This is a cool looking area, there are so many interesting parts to this region. Pity I don't have a wide field setup anymore.
The colour is probably a bit fluro for me but seems to work ok in this instance. Mainly because it sort of enhances the detailing. In any event it is certainly striking.
This is a cool looking area, there are so many interesting parts to this region. Pity I don't have a wide field setup anymore.
The colour is probably a bit fluro for me but seems to work ok in this instance. Mainly because it sort of enhances the detailing. In any event it is certainly striking.
Cheers Paul, I agree with your assessment I'm aware I do tend to run the saturated/fluro gauntlet (and I imagine this would'a looked extra fluro to your eyes, after your last processing effort - which was good BTW), but hey, what can I say, clearly I like colour (Gabany, Gendler, Rogelio and the king of colour Hallas, just to name a few, all do/did the same )... but hopefully at least most of the time , I am able to keep it, even if teetering somewhat, on the right side ...I think I reconcile it through the idea that the atomic process in a HII cloud, kinda reminds me of florescence and given this particular cloud appeared to be almost 100% Ha and that the colour of such excited Hydrogen is indeed a a deep red, with always a little Hb (= blue/cyan) well, you get where my mind set influences sit...