IC 2114 from Snake Valley

[Atmos]

Taken on Friday night up at Snake Valley is IC 2114 which is a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The seeing wasn't crash hot so I ended up 2x2 binning the Ha & OIII data, I have since drizzle integrated it back.

Mapped as
Ha: Red/Green (11x600)
OIII: Green/Blue (12x600)

There is a LOT of hydrogen in this field and like the NGC 248 region, many regions which are either devoid of Ha or OIII, not a huge amount mixed together so I assume that they've been under similar conditions. Didn't get time to see if there was any SII in the field though.

High Res (http://www.astrobin.com/full/269854/0/?nc=all)

[Slawomir]

You have got nice detail in the image Colin :thumbsup:

Interesting colour palette :eyepop: It appears that a flattener is needed to improve star shapes in the corners.

[Placidus]

Well done there, Colin. Looking at where it is on a whole-LMC image, it certainly seems to be one of the fainter patches, but you've brought out huge amounts of interesting detail. As you say, your image shows nice separation of Ha and OIII regions. Makes us want to give it a try too, should it briefly stop raining here.

[Atmos]

Thanks Sauvi :) I've just gone and double checked, the Ha for this target was taken a month ago on the first night I had my FLI PDF setup. My spacing was WAY off that night, have a new part hopefully arriving tomorrow to fix that issue :)
The OIII was taken Friday night though! I took data for four targets on Friday trying to finish a few data sets off hehe



Thanks MnT. The seeing has been pretty bad of late so binning the area seems to have greatly helped that's for sure. Some of the bright areas have saturated during processing but aren't quite that bad pre processing. Have to fix that.
Your FOV would be perfect for the lower left region unless you wanted to mosaic it all :)

[RickS]

Another cool image, Colin!

[SimmoW]

Upset i couldnt see you colin (and your mount)!

Thats a very good unique image, definitely try for SII OR use an artificial channel to get the colour right. Salivating over me processing that

[Atmos]

Thanks Rick, definitely needs a better colour job though!



I put in two hours of 2x2 SII last night, bugger all in that region. I have run a LinearFit against the Ha. Just shows how much Ha there is in the region but how little of others.

[Shiraz]

Very cool image Colin - gets across just how chaotic that region is.

[Stevec35]

Nice detail there Colin but I'm not a fan of the palette. Would like to see this in RGB.

Cheers

Steve