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Octane
26-12-2017, 11:14 PM
All,

Oh, boy. Am I excited about this.

This is a test image, which has been pushed quite a bit, but, there's enough signal there to handle it.

It is a four-panel mosaic, thus far, of the glorious Horsehead Nebula (B33/NGC2023) and the Orion Nebula (M42) region.

There are a lot of errors in this image, which you most likely won't pick up as it's quite downsampled. The original image is close to 8,000 pixels in width and 5,000 pixels in height.

Clearly, the Orion Nebula's core is blown; I will need to take much shorter exposures to bring detail back into the core of M42.

So far, this is 25 hours of hydrogen alpha data that I've captured over the last few months.

Looking forward to capturing more data, and, to finally presenting colour, in a few months time.

Larger version available here (http://octane2.ddns.net:81/astro/b33m42wip.html).

Oh, and, yeah -- this hasn't even made it to Photoshop, yet -- this is all just in PixInsight.

Thanks for looking!

H

DJT
26-12-2017, 11:24 PM
Amazing how much Ha is around there.

Looking really good,H. :thumbsup:

RobF
27-12-2017, 01:07 AM
Looking awesome so far H.

Don't you mean "this is just PS, wait until it gets into PI!" :P :D

leon
27-12-2017, 07:00 AM
That is a pretty awesome collection of Data H, looking forward to the final image mate.

Leon

Placidus
27-12-2017, 07:49 AM
Amazing! The "fox fur" like passages along the bottom and right are beautiful.

Best,
MnT

RickS
27-12-2017, 08:05 AM
Impressively nebulous, H!

Peter Ward
27-12-2017, 11:19 AM
Shots like this are quintessential Astrophotography in my book.

It reveals fantastic vistas that are normally hidden to the unaided eye...and camera for that matter...

Wonderful stuff H. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Camelopardalis
27-12-2017, 11:37 AM
Epic effort H :thumbsup:

Spookyer
27-12-2017, 01:40 PM
Looking good so far!

alpal
27-12-2017, 04:05 PM
Hi Humayun,
That is already spectacular -
it will be amazing when you add the color.
You wouldn't think there was so much Ha to pick up in the whole picture.

cheers
Allan

Atmos
27-12-2017, 04:16 PM
It is looking really good so far H!! The finished product (HaRGB?) is going to be magnificent!

Phil Hart
28-12-2017, 09:00 AM
I'd be excited too H. Great project and great fun hopefully :)

Phil

gregbradley
28-12-2017, 10:43 AM
Remarkable H.

I like the way you put all your effort into one image. Its going to be well worth the effort.

Greg.

strongmanmike
28-12-2017, 12:02 PM
Looking good H...how good is an FSQ :thumbsup:

Mike

marc4darkskies
28-12-2017, 12:57 PM
Great stuff H!! :thumbsup: Looking forward to the next cliffhanger installment! :)

Ross G
29-12-2017, 06:30 PM
Wow!
So much detail.
That is going to be one amazing photo.

Ross.

multiweb
30-12-2017, 03:14 PM
Looks really nice H. Orion always delivers in Ha. :thumbsup: