Shapley 1

[furgle]

Hopefully something you haven't already seen a hundred times, due to it's southern location.


Higher resolution here (http://observatory.site/astrophotography/Shapely_1_Planetary_Nebula/Shapely_1_Planetary_Nebula_20180603 .html)



Image Integration:

73x 300s Luminance
20x 300s Red
30x 300s Green
27x 300s Blue

Total exposure 12 hours 30 minutes.

Hardware:


Celestron C11 EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider

Location:


Imaged over two nights, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:


Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
PixInsight: Crop, deconvolution, dynamic backgroup extraction, noise reduction, star size reduction, LRGB combination, background neutralization, color calibration, curves, histogram.

[LewisM]

That’s lovely. Very vivid

[Atmos]

Very nice planetary Nebula Adam!

[Andy01]

Nice work Adam, well done! :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Very nice closeup with beautiful colours and details. :thumbsup:

[Placidus]

Cracking!

[cometcatcher]

Beautiful. I want it!

[raymo]

Beautiful indeed, but have you noticed that you have spelt Shapley wrongly
in your post, and below the image?[or was it meant to be shapely, which it certainly is].
raymo

[gregbradley]

Very nice. These objects are kind of remarkable really. So bright.

Greg.

[furgle]

Thanks everyone.




Doh! Fixed now.

[topheart]

Good one!
Cheers,
Tim

[strongmanmike]

A nice shot of this little beauty Adam, well executed :thumbsup:

Would you believe, after ariving from Sydney and on our flight from LA to El Paso to attend the Texas Star Party a few weeks ago, I was on a find your own seat flight, so I walked along the isle looking for a smaller person with a vacant seat next to them. I chose a seat where there was an African American woman of smaller stature sitting by the window, so I chucked my bag in the overhead and sat down. Well, as one does when they are all excited at the start of an astronomy road trip with some mates, I struck up a conversation with this lady named Yolanda. When we got on to the topic of why I was in the US and I mentioned that I was on an astronomy trip with some like minded mates and that we would be using the 100" Hooker for a whole night...she said "oh really??! Well, I know Mt Wilson very well!" how's that I replied.."Well, my partner is the great grand daughter of Harlow Shapley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlow_Shapley) and I have been up there a few times"..?..:eyepop:.. She had only buried Harlows daughter Mildred (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Shapley_Matthews), at 101 years old, two years ago and she showed me photos of her. I mean what are the chances, a black gay partner of the great granddaughter of one of the most famous astronomers would be sitting next to me on a plane while on an astronomy road trip..?? Needless to say we had a great conversation all the way to El Paso and parted as if we had been friends for years :lol: :thumbsup:

[markas]

Very sweet image!


Mark

[Retrograde]

Very nice job of such a tiny object Adam. :thumbsup: