Barnard's Loop

[Nicola]

Keeping on filling my imaging catalogue of all the supernova remnants reached with my equipment. This is the time of Barnard's Loop, a supernova remnant visible in the direction of the constellation Orion. I imaged this with my trusty modified Canon 450D, also using the h-alpha filter by Astronomik for HRGB composition.
As always I look forward to your comment.
High-res: http://skymonsters.net/personal/immagine.php?img=Orion_BarnardLoop. jpg

[multiweb]

That's a great pic. Very deep. Love the high-res. :thumbsup:

[leon]

Excellent indeed Nicola, love it.

Leon

[Poita]

That is just stunning.

[RickS]

Lovely capture, Nicola. Nice to see the loop in relation to the whole constellation.

Cheers,
Rick.

[cometcatcher]

Wonderful image Nicola. You even have the Witch head nebula as well.

[Regulus]

That's superb Nicola! Truly beautiful.
Trevor
ps Hope you don't mind that I have made it my Windows Desktop background for thew week :-)

[PeterEde]

Wow
The things you learn
I knew there was a couple nebula in Orion but didn't know the whole thing is still in the remnant of a super nova

[AstroJason]

Really nice image Nicola. I have been working on a similar image this week but doubt mine will be as deep as this. Very nice amount of data, well done!

[Nicola]

Thanks very much to everyone, I am glad you like it.

@cometcatcher: yes, along with other reflections on the way between the Witch and Mintaka. I still have to catch a perfect night to image the Witch with the FSQ though....:-/

@Regulus: you're more then welcome to use it...provide me you pay me 1000 EUR/day+VAT ihihihihih

@PeterEde: yes, some nice small nebulas are visible in the frame with a fiar amount of detail despite the short focal, for example VdB38, the Boogie Man and M78. Still target would like to frame with a longer focal length...

[Regulus]

Gee, that's cheap!
:-)

[Garbz]

Marvellous!

That's about all that could be said. Love that you got the Witche's head in there too.

[LightningNZ]

Deep and beautiful image Nicola. I especially like the bright, colourful red you have used for the H-alpha. A lot of people these days make it look very brown, the red is a nice change.

[Ross G]

Great looking wide photo Nicola.

So much detail and so many objects.


Ross.

[Nicola]

Thanks also to Garbz,LightningNZ and Ross G, glad you like it! Yes I also prefer that kind of red for H-alpha, but not always I am able to get it.