NGC 6188 - Another closeup

[codemonkey]

Looks like NGC 6188 is the flavour of the month, but here's my take on it... a very narrow field LRGB image. Stars aren't as nice and small as you get with those pretty narrowband versions, but that's to be expected. Initial FWHM was 2.3" which is not great, but not totally terrible either.

Started work on another early morning target but think I might go back to this one and get some more data.

As always, full version is available on Astrobin. (https://www.astrobin.com/404555)

[Atmos]

The colour rendition and variation within the dusty regions is incredible! It’s the nuances that separate the great images. You may have not had the seeing for absolute resolution but the variation in the dusty regions is fantastic :)

[Placidus]

A brilliant necklace of diamonds, sapphires, topazes and rubies encircling the dark void toward 8pm.

Lovely.

[multiweb]

:eyepop: That's beautiful Lee. So many stars. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[codemonkey]

Thanks very much Colin :-)

Yeah, not as sharp as I'd like, which is the thing I care about most, but I can only use what the skies give me. Meteoblue has some good seeing forecast for tonight... assuming it's reliable I might be able to add a few more hours of sharper L to this.



Thanks very much Mike :-) I do quite like the star colours on this.



Thanks Marc :D

[strongmanmike]

Excellent clean glittery colourful shot Lee, nicely processed :thumbsup:

Mike

[ChrisV]

Really nice Lee

[codemonkey]

Thanks very much Mike and Chris :)

I'm now up to about 14hrs on this one... would have been a lot more, but the same old story of equipment issues / poor seeing. Was hoping for a lot more, but my clear skies have run out... guess I should reprocess it with the new data.

[gregbradley]

Lovely colour processing, its very engaging. The detail though is quite soft. Perhaps it can take some more sharpening of some kind along the ridge?

Greg.

[LewisM]

For someone who was considering chucking it all in, I am glad you didn't! Nice work Lee.

[codemonkey]

Thanks Greg :-) Yeah, I'm pretty oversampled here, thus the softness... 2.3" FWHM at 0.5"/px isn't so great ... I've reprocessed it now with my new data and did some targeted sharpening in some of the darker structures... and in doing so exacerbated the noise... still I think it's better.



Thanks Lewis :-) Yeah, I think I'd started to forget what it was like to image, but now that I'm doing it again I think I'll be hanging around for a while :)

[topheart]

Lovely field!!
Well done!!
Cheers,
Tim

[codemonkey]

Thanks Tim! :D