Ngc1579

[Leonardo70]

A truly special object, really not much photographed due to the difficulties it presents: excluding the central part the rest is very weak. I invested several nights for shooting. Conditions have changed, but I tried to put it all together at best.

NGC1579 or "Trifid of the North", located in the Perseus constellation:
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC1579.htm

I hope you'll find it interesting.

All the best,
Leo

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Leo.

Beautiful colours.

A new object for me...reminds me of the Flame Nebula.


Ross.

[gregbradley]

Beautiful Leo.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Lovely work Leo, an interesting less highlighted small region, nicely processed of course with excellent handling of the dynamic range...I'm just thinking, is that outer dust really that coal dust black :question:...not that it matters anyway, still looks good :thumbsup:

Mike

[Leonardo70]

Thanks !!

@Mike .. a lot of data,27 hours is a crazy thing for me, i think i have done 2/3 times at all. But this is a really hard one ... in my web page there's a link to APOD from Adam Block. Also if you search there's few image that show coloured this dust. I found in my data a green color that i removed due to the airglow but this happen only for the very weak signal. I found one image that show the whole area and a maroon dust, this, i think this is a great image:
http://www.astroimager.net/Page-RHA-CCD-340.html

I can stay more conservative, but the dust is present on the luminance data. In any case the RC gain a lot of details ..

[strongmanmike]

Yes, it sure did :thumbsup:

Mike

[multiweb]

Superb resolution and colors :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Very interesting region Leo. Tack sharp and nice colours. Well done
Geoff

[alpal]

Hi Leo,
seems in the same league as this APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120309.html

so well done - excellent.

cheers
Allan

[Slawomir]

Magnificent image Leo, thank you for sharing.

[atalas]

Excellent Leo!

[RickS]

Great image, Leo!

[Leonardo70]

Thanks.

All the best,
Leo

[Stevec35]

Great view of the northern Trifid Leo.

Cheers

Steve

[Leonardo70]

Thanks Steve

All the best,
Leo

[suma126]

great image love the colours :thumbsup: