Pillars of Creation

[DiscoDuck]

The PoC in Hubble palette. About 25 hours total of data (11 H, 8 O, 6 S) from suburban Adelaide. GSO RC8 scope, ZWO ASI1600MM-C camera and ZWO filters, Mach1 mount.

The seeing wasn't as good as I'd hoped for, and dew was a constant issue. Not a great time of year to image :-) Hope to get more data next month and try to improve the detail.

Full res available on Astrobin here (https://www.astrobin.com/v94xg9).

[cometcatcher]

Very nice! I'm shooting this as well but much wider.

[Placidus]

Very fine work Paul. Lovely colour depth and detail.

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you Kevin and Mike n Trish.

[Andy01]

Nicely done Paul - hard to add anything new to this favourite, but yours looks great regardless! :thumbsup:

[markas]

Very fine image!


Mark

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you, Mark and Andy.

[multiweb]

As good as it gets. Jealous. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[DiscoDuck]

LOL. Thanks Marc. Err ... this one (attached) from Hubble may be as good as it gets :) ! .... Now THAT is something to be jealous of :eyepop:

[FlashDrive]

That is very good ...!!

[Atmos]

Really nice Paul, you've captured some nice detail :thumbsup:

[DiscoDuck]

:)

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Colin.

[graham.hobart]

that big version is amazing and sharp- love the floating bok stuff- brilliant !
Graz

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you Graz. Very kind.

[codemonkey]

Great image Paul, well done... wouldn't have guessed that your seeing was sub-optimal!

[rustigsmed]

nice work Paul, you've done well there. great processing.

cheers

russ

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you Russell and Lee.

Lee - well, the stack of images was something like 2.9-3.0" FWHM. Not anywhere near as low as I was after. Had to do some decon ... don't tell Mike :-)

[Nikolas]

I love the smoothness of the image excellent result

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Nik.

[multiweb]

:lol: Yeah well until we have an iTelescope service on the moon we'll stick to our local seeing hey?

[Slawomir]

Fantastic detail Paul - well done :thumbsup:

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you Suavi.

[Paul Haese]

Like I said on FB ASSA page Paul, nice work and especially when you consider it was taken with an 8" RC. Smooth back ground, pleasing colour and very good detail. Everything you could ask for in my opinion.

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you so much, Paul. The RC8 is a trusty little scope :)