Return to Shelob's Lair - NGC2070 in NB

Andy01 (Andy) · #1 12-09-2016, 10:23 PM

A new project, revisiting an old favourite with the widefield 'scope.

Inspired by an image of Bert's (Avondonk) from a few years ago, this is a test on NGC 2070 to see if I could isolate most of the nebula in context, with the new ST70t.

Pretty poor seeing and just 4x30mins each of HA, O3 & S2 but enough to get a feel for the image to come. Also with the poor run of weather, I'll take what I can get right now

My plan is to go VERY deep on this, hopefully at Snake Valley Astrocamp at the end of this month.

I'm keen to reveal more of the tendrils below the spider itself, so I'm probably looking at 30+hrs on this. Will see how it goes

Atmos (Colin) · #2 12-09-2016, 10:30 PM

That's showing up really nice right now Andy! In love with your FOV! Really need to get myself a KAF-16803 for a wider view

Placidus (Mike and Trish) · #3 12-09-2016, 10:31 PM

Oh such a tease! Would love to see the big one. That is already looking spectacular.

Don't go too deep. The strength of the image as it stands is that it shows the main large-scale structure,which is very beautiful.

Andy01 (Andy) · #4 12-09-2016, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Atmos

That's showing up really nice right now Andy! In love with your FOV! Really need to get myself a KAF-16803 for a wider view

Lol, Cheers Colin - widefield is fun

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Originally Posted by Placidus

Oh such a tease! Would love to see the big one. That is already looking spectacular.

Don't go too deep. The strength of the image as it stands is that it shows the main large-scale structure, which is very beautiful.

Here you go Mike - http://www.astrobin.com/full/264040/0/
Remember it's just a wip and the processing is a bit rough so don't pixel peep too closely!

strongmanmike (Michael) · #5 13-09-2016, 10:04 AM

Actually kinda like the blue-gold look and the framing is interesting, what a region huh?

good luck with the project Andy

Mike

Retrograde (Pete) · #6 13-09-2016, 11:50 AM

A lovely capture of the delicate filaments and globs of nebulosity that permeate this region. Will be interesting to see where you go with this.

Stevec35 (Steve) · #7 13-09-2016, 06:39 PM

Love it Andy! Looks great.

Cheers

Steve

RickS (Rick) · #8 14-09-2016, 01:42 PM

Looks promising, Andy.

Andy01 (Andy) · #9 14-09-2016, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Actually kinda like the blue-gold look and the framing is interesting, what a region huh?

good luck with the project Andy

Mike

Thanks Mike, yes I'm a bit exited about this one - hoping for clear skies over Snake Valley = I have a fancy new 3nm N2 Astrodon filter to play with as well - woohoo!

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Originally Posted by Retrograde

A lovely capture of the delicate filaments and globs of nebulosity that permeate this region. Will be interesting to see where you go with this.

Stay tuned, hoping to bring forward more of those fabulous filaments

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Originally Posted by Stevec35

Love it Andy! Looks great.

Cheers

Steve

Cheers mate

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Looks promising, Andy.

Fingers crossed Rick

vlazg (George) · #10 17-09-2016, 10:31 AM

An ambitious project Andy, looking forward to the final result

Slawomir (Suavi) · #11 18-09-2016, 04:34 PM

Echoing others - your teaser looks very promising Andy

This is definitely one of my favourite areas and I will certainly have another go at it one day.

Do you reckon moving the image 100 pixels down and 200 pixels to the left would allow to reveal a tad more in the top /top-right corner?