LBN782 in Taurus: dust, nebulae, galaxies and a brown dwarf
LBN782 (from Beverly Lynd's catalogue of bright nebula) is the blue reflection nebula on the left hand side. There are several Barnard dark nebulae in the field (B7, B10, B209, B211), E/S0 galaxy IC359 and also a brown dwarf, 2MASS J04141188+2811535. Not only is it a brown dwarf, it's also a variable as well...
Capture details:
Scope: FSQ-106ED
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: QSI683
Filters: Astrodon Gen II LRGB
Guiding: QSI OAG + Lodestar
Image scale: 2.094 arcsec/pixel (drizzle x 2)
Exposures: 36x900s L, 14x900s R, 15x900s G, 21x900s B (21.5 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
What's not to like Rick. Beautiful reflection colours and oodles of yummy brown dust. Love what you're getting from the FSQ and 8300. 21hrs of data has to help too.
What's not to like Rick. Beautiful reflection colours and oodles of yummy brown dust. Love what you're getting from the FSQ and 8300. 21hrs of data has to help too.
Nicely done.
Thanks, Rob! Looking forward to the AP140 and U16M which should be about twice as fast.
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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
Beautiful image. I must explore more of these northern sky goodies. Need to fire up the chainsaw again.
Thanks, Kevin. Perhaps invite some of the local rally drivers into the back yard
Perhaps a bit noisey and something funny going on with the stars (they look worked on) but otherwise it looks great, lots of interesting twists and turns and plenty to enjoy Rick, nice work on what would be a difficult target to process I would imagine
With scopes all over World, you must have plenty of data to work with these days?
I looked hard to hit you with constructive criticism, but in the end I just enjoyed appreciating the image
Lovely contrast between the light (stars as well as the bright parts of the nebula) and darkness (colder gas clouds) - to me it brings magic to astro images.
Perhaps a bit noisey and something funny going on with the stars (they look worked on) but otherwise it looks great, lots of interesting twists and turns and plenty to enjoy Rick, nice work on what would be a difficult target to process I would imagine
With scopes all over World, you must have plenty of data to work with these days?
Mike
Ta, Mike. Yep, there is noise there even with 20+ hours. I blame the inadequately small pixels on the KAF-8300 The FSQ/QSI-683 combo also produces bloated stars and the occasional giant spike on the bright ones, hence a lot of time trying to clean up the stars and evidence of some of the mangling that went on (also the funky effects of the microlenses). I have used the FSQ at home with both STL11K and U16M cameras I much prefer the results I get with 9um pixels.
And yes, it was a bugger to process
I still have a few data sets to work on but the winter at SRO was pretty awful and we didn't get as many good nights as expected. Hopefully, things will wind up again soon and I'll be drowning in data again
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Originally Posted by sjastro
Excellent image Rick.
Steven
Thanks, Steven!
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Hi Rick,
I looked hard to hit you with constructive criticism, but in the end I just enjoyed appreciating the image
Lovely contrast between the light (stars as well as the bright parts of the nebula) and darkness (colder gas clouds) - to me it brings magic to astro images.
Thanks, Slawomir! It's a very picturesque FOV. A mosaic would have been nice. There's some other interesting stuff not far away.
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Originally Posted by IanP
Amazing image, Rick, LUV it
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Originally Posted by Nortilus
wicked as bloke...keep em coming
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Nice colours and interesting detail Rick. Nice to have plenty of data too.
Thanks Ian, Josh & Paul.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Capturing a brown dwarf seems a bit special. Well done!
This is a load of rubbish Rick!! Here I am sitting under perpetual cloud and rain with my new camera 15,000km away being repaired (supposedly) and you're taking images like this! Cut it out will you please!!
Seriously though, very nice image Rick as always I agree with Mike's critique though.
This is a load of rubbish Rick!! Here I am sitting under perpetual cloud and rain with my new camera 15,000km away being repaired (supposedly) and you're taking images like this! Cut it out will you please!!
Seriously though, very nice image Rick as always I agree with Mike's critique though.
Cheers, Marcus
Ta, Marcus. I agree with Mike too. I'll have to work on making my highly mangled stars from this set up look more natural. They do look much better than the original data though
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Originally Posted by Tony_
Another great image Rick!
The dust in your images seems to give more of a 3D effect adding more depth to the view.
Tony.
Thanks, Tony.
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Originally Posted by cazza132
Awesome work on an area that is well north in our skies. Something different that is not cracked at very often here. Beautiful image!
Thanks, Troy. I did cheat a bit by using a scope in Calfornia
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Superb field and colours Rick. Sub zero cool.
Gotta agree with Marcus though. Send some clear skies our way you photon hogger.
Thanks, Marc. There has a bit of a photon drought in California too. This is data from last year that I'm still catching up on
