Around Perdition's Flames

[Andy01]

Khan stated "I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!" (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) :D

NGC 3572 is a star cluster situated near a molecular cloud in Carina about 6500 light year distance. These stars are young and massive and are only expected to live a few million years and explode as supernovae. These stars have shaped the clouds into amazingly convoluted shapes by their powerful radiation.(Eso)

...and it's a pretty cool target - near the great Carina Nebula but not often photographed by itself. (Thanks M&T for the inspiration to attempt this one) ;)

Mapped S2>B, O3>R, Ha>G - RGB stars > colours tweaked a bit ;)

Taken from my light polluted backyard in Melbourne, Victoria- Australia

Large image HERE (https://www.astrobin.com/400197/B/)

[spiezzy]

Love your work Andy that is amazing love the colour and the detail
great stuff thanks for sharing
cheers Pete

[strongmanmike]

Great inspiration from M&T but if I am honest, I'm not really digging the washy water colours like palette and it does look a little soft to me especially for an NB image :question: perhaps focus, seeing? Did you use automated focusing?...but having said all those horrible mean and nasty things :P, it is certainly a pretty cool bit of nebula well worth the effort to capture. Would you consider a repo? :)

Mike

[Peter Ward]

Humm...different.

Actually dont mind it al all. :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Looks like a gaz flame. Cool colours. :thumbsup:
Agree it's a bit soft, probably seeing.

[gregbradley]

A bit of a wild and unusual image Andy. Its got your trademark flamboyance.

I haven't seen this one before.

Greg.

[Andy01]

Aw thanks Pete - It's fun to have unusual targets to play with, beats hammering the usual suspects :D



Gee Mike, glad you didn't say what you really thought of the image! ;)
I'll look into the softness thing - maybe it's collimation?



Cheers Peter, different is good - to paraphrase Kathy Lette "it's what makes the garlic and flavouring in the salad of life". :)



Thanks Marc - yep sure does resemble a gas flame to me too! :D
I like the colours too - nothing to add about the apparent softness, other than maybe compare it with this one (https://mikeberthonjones.smugmug.com/) maybe I used too much NR or collimation is slightly out?



Ha Ha! Thanks Greg! :lol:
As mentioned above, different/unusual can be a good thing - treading the off-beaten path certainly can have it's pitfalls, and occasionally, some nice rewards as well :)

[Geoff45]

Weird, but it’s good to push the boundaries.