NGC1491 Cathedral of light

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

Hello,

AIC2011 was last weekend and I feel like I have fully recovered. It was great to see Mark Bolton and Stuart from the Boss group had come all the way from AU to be there.

AIC inspired me to dig out some old data on am image I never really finished. It is not as deep as I like but it has some interesting features. There is a blister (bubble) around the 11th mag center star and a waterfall light structure at around 11:00 oc.

Standard Hubble palette with synthetic RGB stars.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Nebula...91/NGC1491.htm

Thanks for taking the time to look . .

[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

nice mate - excellent as usual

After Dons workshop I am keen to revisit some old nb data myself.

still in the US - Back to Vegas on Sunday. will post a summary of the conference soon.

MB

[PeterM]

Oh wow Ken, a beautiful image indeed. Cathedral of Light is so perfect a name. Hope Bolts & Stu didn't lead you astray. After seeing Stus pics from the conference I can imagine Bolts has probably got a few goodies with him, no doubt will hear more about it at Leyburn. It appears Stu was taken with one of the fine 'scopes on display and has it on the plane as he heads home to New Zealand.
Love your work.
Peter

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Lovely in all respects!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yes the central glow is beautiful Ken

Lovely image

Hope AIC2011 was another big success

Mike

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yes the central glow is beautiful Ken

Lovely image

Hope AIC2011 was another big success

Mike

Thanks for all the kind comments,

AIC was the largest ever with over 300 attendees and 35 exhibitors. The workshops and presentations were all great and the networking was amazing. Astrophotographers are the nicest group of people on the planet!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Astrophotographers are the nicest group of people on the planet!

...craziest too

[gregbradley]

Another Ken masterpiece. Beautifully done.

Greg.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Gorgeous Ken,

Cheers, Marcus

[DavidTrap (David)]

Very nice Ken,

DT

[TrevorW]

Seems overly bright in central area IMO although this is the nicest version I've seen

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Seems overly bright in central area IMO although this is the nicest version I've seen

The central area is really flooded with energy - I could have toned it down but something was ringing in the back of my mind when I was processing it - something that I heard from David Malin at AAIC.

"Respect the light"

I wanted to see if I could try to display the huge dynamic range (right to the brink) and still show the details while doing it. I appeciate your comments very much as it shows I did push to the limits . . .

Thanks again for the suggestions as they say what people are thinking when they view the image. Also, I have two processing monitors - both are calibrated with Spyder2Pro and the image looks a bit different in both monitors. I tried to split the brightness difference between the two.

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful image Ken, the central region really looks surreal and so 3D.

Looking around for info on this object, the accompanying images were nothing in comparison to yours! Just brilliant.

It's now IOTW.

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Beautiful image Ken, the central region really looks surreal and so 3D.

Looking around for info on this object, the accompanying images were nothing in comparison to yours! Just brilliant.

It's now IOTW.

Thank you so much! I am really glad you like it and thanks for the IOTW.

Kindest Regards,

[atalas]

Congrats on the IOTW,a wonderful image a well earned.

[cybereye (Mario)]

Ken,

Stunning!

Cheers,
Mario

[zipdrive (Dave)]

Beautiful!

[allan gould]

Masterful and inspirational image Ken. Really well framed and composed and I love the NB rendition.
Cant say more than that except to look again.

[midnight (Darrin)]

Congratulations Ken on IOTW. I enjoy looking (and learning) at your work and the result speaks for itself.

Thanks for showing!

Darrin...

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

You guys make me blush! What is interesting about this region is the central star is blowing a bubble of sorts. It shows up well in Ha and OIII and my real question is how much brightness is lost from inside the bubble?

Thanks again for the comments, they are so inspiring to me.