Heart of the rose(ette)

[rat156]

Hi All,

The central part of the Rosette nebula in HaRGB. About 7 hours of Ha data and about an hour for each of the colours.

Processed in CCDStack, then a lot of Photoshop. Processed to highlight the fine nebula structure.

Typical Melbourne seeing (2-4"), but with a lot of depth in the luminance a lot of selective sharpening can happen, maybe overdone?

Larger image here (https://www.facebook.com/AstrophotographyAntipodes)

Cheers
Stuart

[gregbradley]

Holy Cow, what a wonderful image. So sharp and detailed. Sensational Stuart. You've been putting out some awesome images lately.

Greg.

[David Fitz-Henr]

That's a great image Stuart; superb detail and the stars are expertly blended against the nebula :thumbsup:

[rat156]

Thanks Greg.

Can't see the cow, but I spotted a leaping cat, whale, goat, elephant and a hippo!

Cheers
Stuart

[gregbradley]

:lol:

Yes I can see those too. Those parts of your image are incredibly sharp.

Greg.

[rat156]

Here's the unadjusted Ha median combined tiff file (or a 200k representation of it).

A link to the original tiff file here (http://www.hightail.com/download/elNJdFdVQXA1UjdLd01UQw)

As you can see there has been quite a lot of work sone to the raw image...

Cheers
Stuart

[astronobob]

Wow, have the whole Zoo in there Stuart, very impressive sharpening & doesN't look over done at all the way you have it, Really dig the central stars popping with the rest of image too. astounding result, well done :cool2:

[stevous67]

Hello Stuart,

The Ha image is really great. Never noticed the little animal shapes there, good spotting.

Can't get use to viewing images in Facebook though.

Good stuff,

Steve

[jase]

:thumbsup: Top work Stu

[dvj]

Outstanding work! Very sharp and detailed. :thumbsup: I actually like the color image better than the single Ha. Go figure? Don't tell Mike I wrote that. ;)

[RickS]

The new scope/camera combo is working well, Stuart!

[Spookyer]

Very cool:eyepop:

[aljo2345]

Stunning!!

[strongmanmike]

Yeah, nice work Stuart, plenty to see, nice and detailed and I like the diffraction spikes the ASA produces, unique. I'd like to see e little more colour variation but it still looks great :thumbsup:

The animals in the Rosette (http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/140710554/original) were all discovered some time ago though :D

Mike

[Bassnut]

Insane detail Stuart, very sharp., top work. Not overdone at all IMO.

[strongmanmike]

What?...I missed that, say again John...

:lol:

[rat156]

Hi Mike,

Yeah, I remembered (vaguely) your image.

The RGB images were cut a bit short as the target drops below the roofline at about 0430, so I'm probably missing some dynamic range in the blue. But looking at the RGB exposures the image should be very, very red.

Cheers
Stuart

[Paul Haese]

Nice sharp detail Stuart. I really like the whispy sharp detail you have there.

[Ross G]

Great photo Stuart.

So sharp with amazing detail.

Ross.

[E_ri_k]

Great image Stuart:thumbsup: It has a real sense of depth and size! Great detail!
Erik