The Pencil Nebula

[DiscoDuck]

One more image ... it's been a weekend of processing! This is the Pencil, taken from the 'burbs of Adelaide. So quite a bit of data, and yet still not that great a result.

About 20 hours each of OIII and Ha.

Astrobin version is here (https://www.astrobin.com/full/j5nzjg/0/).

[topheart]

A very pretty pencil!
Cheers,
Tim

[strongmanmike]

Yes not a bad result there Paul, always nice to get some of those filaments below the pencil :thumbsup:...Hmm?..I must pencil this in to do sometime myself...:P :lol:

Mike

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Tim

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Mike. Ouch re pun. In that case, I might add .... don't forget to sharpen it :D

[strongmanmike]

Aaaah who knows where I could be lead with this....?

:whistle:

[DiscoDuck]

Try an H beta filter so you can claim you have an Hb Pencil! :rofl:

[strongmanmike]

Oh for goodness sake Paul!...what is your point! :rolleyes: :rofl:

....sorry....:P

[DiscoDuck]

:lol:

[Geoff45]

Nice and sharp Paul. The scribbles under the main neb look good.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Geoff. "Scribbles" ... I like it. Continuing Mike's pencil-themed puns :D

[DiscoDuck]

Though possibly less of a rich source of puns .... though I expect to be corrected on that! :)

[strongmanmike]

Oh oh!...I suspect a whole cauldron of double double toil and trouble now that you have said that Paul :doh: :scared:

[pkinchington]

very nice!

[glend]

I must correct myself, that is actually Herchel's Ray, NGC 2736 (aka the Pencil Nebula). The Witches Broom is NGC 6960, and is also known as the Western Veil Nebula.

[Wilsil]

Great image, it's on my to-do-list.

[multiweb]

Very deep. Love the tendrils under it. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Peter.





Thanks Wilco. Good luck with it.





Thanks Marc. Yes, on previous attempts at this I didn't go deep enough to get them. Very intricate tendrils.