Ic1274

[Paul Haese]

I have imaged this area a few times over the years. Most times I focused on NGC6559 which is the small dark nebula which looks a bit like the horse head. However on this occasion I decided to have IC1274 as the main part of the image. It has those lovely tendrils of blue reflection nebula wafting over the hydrogen gas. I also initially contemplated cropping out NGC6559 but decided the whole image looked better with it included.

The image contains 30 hours of integrated data. About 10 hours was Ha, about 6 hours of OIII and about 7 hours of luminance. The balance in RGB.

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[Atmos (Colin)]

There is a definite pop and contrast that you get from such long integrations, absolutely love the whisky region in the centre of the image

[Bart]

Nice mate! Similar colours to mine so we both must be doing something right. The closer view is very cool as well.

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's awesome.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Beautiful. The balance between the narrowband and LRGB is excellent. Crisp detail, and good colour.

[willik (Willik)]

You Beauty looks great
Martin

[niharika]

Beautiful image Paul. Love it.
Might well be my monitor(its not calibrated) but part of the lower left seems a little clipped on black.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Well done Paul, thought you've finally tamed the AG12 but I see this was taken with your GSO. It's a lovely image!

[gregbradley]

Superb Paul. Everything is perfect.

Greg.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

That is a seriously good image Paul. Superb clarity and mix of features make for a stunning presentation

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Very nice Paul - excellent colour, depth and detail.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Top shot Paul. The blue has come out well.
Geoff

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments and compliments.

Originally Posted by Andy01

Well done Paul, thought you've finally tamed the AG12 but I see this was taken with your GSO. It's a lovely image!

This is the beauty of having two setups on separate mounts at the same site. I have continued to image on the RC whilst trying to sort issues with the AG12. It has I am sure saved my sanity. Though this rig also needs some further fine tuning yet.