Ic427 with reprocessed image

[Paul Haese]

This is an area that is quite close to M42 and yet it seldom gets imaged. Lots of dust and gas with a little of everything within the field. I found that the O stars at the verge of the field really dominate and provide a lot of glare into this field. Possibly even some reflection nebulosity.

Integration 21.8 hours with a mix of LHaRGB

Click here (http://paulhaese.net/IC427.html) for larger image.

Edit. I have loaded the revised thumbnail of the larger new image for comparison.

[Stevec35]

New one on me Paul. Your image looks really good.

Cheers

Steve

[Ryderscope]

Stunning Paul. Very fine processing as well.

[Placidus]

New to me too. The handling of "Cousin It" at the bottom right, complete with bulbous eyes and shaggy dust-lane hair, is magnificent bordering on spooky.

[smader]

Cool. This area is imaged often professionally due to the number of protostellar outflows in the region. There are so many Herbig-Haro objects in this field, it ain't funny. A few of the outflows (HH1/2, HH34) are more than a parsec in length... The "Cousin It" is the bow shock of HH1/2 (if I remember correctly...)

A road map of this very interesting region: http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/ngc1999_s2hao3_ap180_6303.htm

[marc4darkskies]

A lovely and very interesting image Paul. You need to zoom in on the lower right quadrant though :)

[Somnium]

really nice image Paul

[Atmos]

A very interesting field Paul, not one that I have come across in my relatively short time in this hobby :P Nicely done :)

[gvanhau]

Nice image Paul.

I had imaged the lower right cuadrant before, wich is also known as NGC1999.


Geert

[RickS]

Very cool field, Paul. Would probably look good as plain Ha with all that interesting structure.

Cheers,
Rick.

[marco]

Nice image Paul, an object much less imaged that it deserves, due to the overwhelming neighbor that gets almost all attention :)
Only remarks I have is about the color balance, I find the image a bit dark and too magenta, probably due to the Ha contribution. I imaged the same area a while ago and several nebulas in the area were recorded with nice yellow and cyan while the dust was brown/grey-ish: http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/Nebulae/i-Rnv7k22/O
It is a great image but I would check again the color calibration to display the full chroma palette present in the area..
Clear skies
Marco

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments. Much appreciated.

Smader, thanks for the link and the commentary on the region. Interesting stuff.



Thank Marco for your comment. I went back and redid the image from scratch as I when I looked at the image again with fresh eyes it did seem the colour balance was not right. Still not really certain that is quite what I was thinking my preference would be, but certainly happier with the look. I like the way the luminance is shown in your image over the way it looks in mine.

I have put a thumbnail up to demonstrate the difference. The link now has the new image.

[Regulus]

Yeah, that's a lot of glare all right.
This is a fascinating nebula and new to me, and I am finding the detail in the lower right quadrant really interesting.
Nicely done, and thanks for taking the time to capture this one Paul.
Nicely done.
Trev

[rustigsmed]

very nice paul i like the reprocessed version.

cheers

[Bassnut]

Monster image, looks excellent on 4k, I like the colour balance.