Hummingbird Nebula

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

A quickie of the Torchbearer Nebula (NGC 3576).

I wasn't going to post this, as I had a lot of guiding issues last night and so didn't get much data. Salvaged only 37 x 5 min Ha frames with an ZWO ASI 1600MM-C on an RC8 and EQ6. And colourised it with an old QHY8 RGB image from last year for a quick view of a colour version (so colour is a bit weird - my apologies!).

What made me post it was the cool little hummingbird shape (see attached 100% crop)

Both images on Astrobin here and here.

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice work, Paul. Well salvaged

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

A very good result well processed.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Looks good to me Paul

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice work, Paul. Well salvaged

Thanks Rick.

Originally Posted by Placidus

A very good result well processed.

Thanks Mike n Trish. Still haven't got the hang of the L + RGB combination in PixInsight as it seems to generate some unexpected results.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Looks good to me Paul

Thanks Geoff.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Hey Paul, so would you say you didn't quite have your equipment humming...? well your image is I like it (your image, not my bad joke)

Mike

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thanks Mike.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Hey Paul, so would you say you didn't quite have your equipment humming...? well your image is I like it (your image, not my bad joke)

[multiweb (Marc)]

Really well done Paul. The crop does look like a humming bird. Good catch.