Astrofest NGC6164

[peter_4059]

This was going to be my main project for Astrofest this year so I spent quite a few nights gathering data. Unfortunately I had some issues with tracking/balance and then with colimation so the data wasn't quite what I was hoping for.

In any case here's almost 8 hours through the newt on this amazing target.

Full res version here:
http://astrob.in/52199/

[strongmanmike]

Excellent result Peter, 8hrs huh? meah wasn't that only about 1/8 of the clear sky hours you had? :lol: (amazing). You can see the faint outer ring nicely...ah sigh problems in the field...not for me any more he he ;) :thumbsup:

Mike

[Garbz]

Now that bubble has come through quite nicely. Your laptop screen really didn't do it justice last week.

[RickS]

You went for some difficult targets, Peter. That outer bubble must be amazingly faint. Nice one!

[Ross G]

Great photo Peter.

You've captured so much detail.

Nice colours too.


Ross.

[cybereye]

Peter,

I love the outer shell! Well captured...:thumbsup:

Mario

[RB]

+1, Yep what Mario said Pete !
Well done.

:thumbsup:

[Larryp]

Lovely image, Peter

[allan gould]

Great image Peter. Really nailed the faint outer regions and made an interesting photo.
Allan

[ozstronomer]

Great image Peter, was this only RGB or did you add in an Ha for the outer ring

[RobF]

Nice one Peter. Would be interested if this includes an Ha too?

[h0ughy]

great shot - well processed Peter. the shock wave detail and the neb are a treat

[jjjnettie]

Really impressive Pete. :)

[peter_4059]

Thought I had plenty of Ha and OIII to bring out the outer ring however it could have done with more. Unfortunately Pixinsight wasn't cooperating so couldn't run batch pre-processing script until I got home.



Yes Chris - ended up blending some Ha and OIII into the Luminosity to make that come out. I think originally I was just playing with the LRGB data.



Thanks Rick - I was determined to come back with some different images this year - for the last couple I've been redoing images I have from previous years. There is an amazing APOD of this object by Don Goldman that shows the extent of the bubble however it doesn't say how he imaged it - suspect a lot of Ha and OIII.



Cheers Ross.



Thanks Mario - that's what I was hoping for.



Cheers Andrew.



Thanks Larry.



It's an interesting target - parts of it show up quite bright in the wider field images of NGC6188 however there is a lot more to this when you hit it with NB.



Geoff - this had quite a lot of Ha and OIII (31x5mins of each). The LRGB was only around 6x5 mins of each.



Yep - Greg Bond told me to give it heaps of Ha and OIII so I did!



Thanks JJJ.