LBN782 in Taurus: dust, nebulae, galaxies and a brown dwarf

[RickS]

LBN782 (from Beverly Lynd's catalogue of bright nebula) is the blue reflection nebula on the left hand side. There are several Barnard dark nebulae in the field (B7, B10, B209, B211), E/S0 galaxy IC359 and also a brown dwarf, 2MASS J04141188+2811535. Not only is it a brown dwarf, it's also a variable as well...

Capture details:

Scope: FSQ-106ED
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: QSI683
Filters: Astrodon Gen II LRGB
Guiding: QSI OAG + Lodestar
Image scale: 2.094 arcsec/pixel (drizzle x 2)
Exposures: 36x900s L, 14x900s R, 15x900s G, 21x900s B (21.5 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8

High res here: http://www.astrobin.com/177444/

Please hit me with your constructive criticism, as always :D

Cheers,
Rick.

[RobF]

What's not to like Rick. Beautiful reflection colours and oodles of yummy brown dust. Love what you're getting from the FSQ and 8300. 21hrs of data has to help too.

Nicely done.

[cometcatcher]

Beautiful image. I must explore more of these northern sky goodies. Need to fire up the chainsaw again. ;)

[RickS]

Thanks, Rob! Looking forward to the AP140 and U16M which should be about twice as fast.



Thanks, Kevin. Perhaps invite some of the local rally drivers into the back yard :)

[Stevec35]

Nothing to criticize here Rick. Beautiful image.

Steve

[strongmanmike]

Perhaps a bit noisey and something funny going on with the stars (they look worked on) but otherwise it looks great, lots of interesting twists and turns and plenty to enjoy Rick, nice work on what would be a difficult target to process I would imagine :thumbsup:

With scopes all over World, you must have plenty of data to work with these days? :)

Mike

[sjastro]

Excellent image Rick.

Steven

[Slawomir]

Hi Rick,

I looked hard to hit you with constructive criticism, but in the end I just enjoyed appreciating the image :)

Lovely contrast between the light (stars as well as the bright parts of the nebula) and darkness (colder gas clouds) - to me it brings magic to astro images.

[IanP]

Amazing image, Rick, LUV it :thumbsup:

[Nortilus]

wicked as bloke...keep em coming :D

[Paul Haese]

Nice colours and interesting detail Rick. Nice to have plenty of data too.

[Placidus]

Capturing a brown dwarf seems a bit special. Well done!

[RickS]

Thanks, Steve.



Ta, Mike. Yep, there is noise there even with 20+ hours. I blame the inadequately small pixels on the KAF-8300 ;) The FSQ/QSI-683 combo also produces bloated stars and the occasional giant spike on the bright ones, hence a lot of time trying to clean up the stars and evidence of some of the mangling that went on (also the funky effects of the microlenses). I have used the FSQ at home with both STL11K and U16M cameras I much prefer the results I get with 9um pixels.

And yes, it was a bugger to process :D

I still have a few data sets to work on but the winter at SRO was pretty awful and we didn't get as many good nights as expected. Hopefully, things will wind up again soon and I'll be drowning in data again :lol:



Thanks, Steven!



Thanks, Slawomir! It's a very picturesque FOV. A mosaic would have been nice. There's some other interesting stuff not far away.







Thanks Ian, Josh & Paul.



First one that I know of, thanks Mike.

Cheers,
Rick.

[ozstronomer]

Great image Rick, the dust looks stunning.

Nicely done

Geoff

[marc4darkskies]

This is a load of rubbish Rick!! Here I am sitting under perpetual cloud and rain with my new camera 15,000km away being repaired (supposedly) and you're taking images like this! Cut it out will you please!! :P:lol:

Seriously though, very nice image Rick as always :thumbsup: I agree with Mike's critique though.

Cheers, Marcus

[Tony_]

Another great image Rick!
The dust in your images seems to give more of a 3D effect adding more depth to the view.

Tony.

[cazza132]

Awesome work on an area that is well north in our skies. Something different that is not cracked at very often here. Beautiful image!

[multiweb]

Superb field and colours Rick. Sub zero cool. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Gotta agree with Marcus though. Send some clear skies our way you photon hogger.

[RickS]

Thanks, Geoff.



Ta, Marcus. I agree with Mike too. I'll have to work on making my highly mangled stars from this set up look more natural. They do look much better than the original data though :)



Thanks, Tony.



Thanks, Troy. I did cheat a bit by using a scope in Calfornia ;)



Thanks, Marc. There has a bit of a photon drought in California too. This is data from last year that I'm still catching up on :lol:

[Leonardo70]

Wonderful area Rick and great rendition.

All the best,
Leo

[SpaceNoob]

This image is pretty amazing to look at. You've presented very natural looking nebulous structures, I like it a lot. Colours are very cool too.

I see those micro lens effects but they look good here, I've learned to appreciate them, at least at shorter focal lengths. At 2.5m they can be a nightmare, for me at least.

[RickS]

Thanks, Leo!



Thanks, Chris. I wonder if I could script a micro lens repairer for PixInsight :question: It might even be possible to do it with deconvolution with a carefully generated PSF. I will have a play on my next 8300 captured image...

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Rick.

Beautiful colours and detail.

Love the dust!

Ross.

[RickS]

Thanks, Ross!

[marco]

Nice image Rick of an unusual yet amazing object, there is a lot going on there! It must be very faint, I can see you had to stretch a lot to take out all that dust despite the very long exposure..
Clear skies
Marco

[RickS]

Thanks, Marco. Yes, it's a very dim target. The smaller pixels of the KAF-8300 don't help either.

Cheers,
Rick.