M78

[gregbradley]

I took this a while ago.

CDK17 F6.8 and FLI ML16.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/167542129/large

Greg.

[AstroBogan]

Very vibrant, i really like it!

[strongmanmike]

Nice one Greg :thumbsup:...are you sure that wasn't taken with the RHA...? there are no diffraction spikes..:question:

Mike

[Andy01]

Nice image Greg, great detail, maybe a tad purple?
Well done :thumbsup:

[Placidus]

A hard one to work with. You've shown it as a rich, thick, interesting stew of dust, gas, and star formation. Well done. :thumbsup:

[markas]

Very nice! :thumbsup:


Mark

[multiweb]

Looks great Greg. The highres is nice to browse around. Top stuff. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Thank you!



I did a double take on this myself. I do have RHA data on M78 and its much more widefield. The CDK doesn't make particularly pronounced diffraction spikes, usually on bright stars only. But yes it had me looking twice on this point!



Yes perhaps a bit too much purple. Its a funny area colourwise and I do think there is some purple in the area.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Mike



Cheers Mark.



Cheers Marc. The CDK and the ML16 with good seeing are a nice match.

Greg.

[willik]

Nice image great detail Greg but the colour is a bit strange
Martin

[gregbradley]

Thanks Martin.

I've fixed up the purple colour bias and posted the corrected version to the same link.

Greg.

[willik]

Just had a look Greg on the change in colour
it looks Great.
Martin

[Geoff45]

It's a realy interesting region Greg and you've captured nice detail and colour.



There really is purple there. I took an image of this region some time ago
https://www.astrobin.com/27709/?image_list_page=3&nc=&nce=
There is even more purple than in your pic.
Also have a look here
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091126.html
Geoff

[Slawomir]

Really nice image Greg :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Looks great to me, Greg!

[gregbradley]

Cheers Martin.



Yes its an odd colour area for sure.



Thanks Suavi.



Thanks very much Rick.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

A very fine M78 Greg, and one of your finest images in a while...nice one :thumbsup:

[FlashDrive]

I like it ...nice colours ....excellent :)

[gregbradley]

Why thank you Peter.



Thanks Col. It is a colourful area for sure.
Greg

[Atmos]

Very nice Greg! Much better than my attempt a few months back :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Thanks Colin.

Greg.

[topheart]

Gorgeous Greg, just gorgeous!!
Congratulations!
Cheers,
Tim

[Retrograde]

Superb detail. A lovely image Greg!

[gregbradley]

Thanks very much Tim.



Cheers Pete.

Greg.

[atalas]

Well composed Greg....excellent :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Thanks Louie. I did a version of this framing a while ago and liked how it looked. It wasn't that deep though. So it was on the books to redo it later on.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Was just having another look at this Greg...are you suuuure this was taken with the 17" CDK..? This (https://www.astrobin.com/full/330948/0/) is an M78 also taken with a 17" CDK and the spikes are pretty obvious..:shrug:

Still nice, just wondering :)

Mike

[gregbradley]

Yeah must be. I need to be more careful of my file naming. That is a pretty amazing image. I'll have to image it next year with the CDK.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Just label them with "24inch RC"...that's about the only chance I would ever have of seeing a file of that name in my computer :P.....:sadeyes:

[gregbradley]

Well you can label it anything you like but the data may not have been taken with an RC24 but an FSQ!

Greg

[strongmanmike]

:lol:....one day.....:sadeyes:...just looked at 100acres under Bortel2 SQM 21.96 skies though....hmmmm? :question:

[gregbradley]

Whereabouts?

Greg.