Sh2-63

[vlazg]

This field lies within the constellation of Sagittarius. This is pretty much a one object field featuring the Hydrogen emission area of Sharpless 63 - also known as LBN 86. This emission region is associated with the MBM 158 and MBM 159 molecular clouds.



Back again after the wet season hiatus. This is the first chance I had to use a QSI 690 wsg that I bought from Suavi last year, great camera, no darks or flats. Incredibly clean.


I used PHD2 multistar guiding with the Mach 1 and the results were amazing.


Higher resolution here and details https://www.astrobin.com/58fuut/0/


:) George

[multiweb]

Awesome. :thumbsup:

[vlazg]

Thanks Marc, pretty obscure and more data would help, I’m thinking of doing a mosaic to include this with Barnards galaxy if I have time

[gregbradley]

A new one for us. Nice capture. There is a fair bit of blue chromatic aberration going on there. If you use Photoshop (RAW camera tool) or Lightroom their chromatic aberration slider will correct that easily. The small pixels must be taxing the FSQ.

Greg.

[vlazg]

Thanks for the advice Greg, much appreciated, the main problem was poor processing I think, first time for 8 months.
I have since revised it and it looks better. The jpeg is a bit blocky.
Cheers
George.

[strongmanmike]

Great shot of a rarely captured dust cloud George, looks excellent :thumbsup:

I shot it with the FSQ-16803 combo two years ago, with my 4degX4deg field, I could fit in Barnards Galaxy too :D

Mike

[vlazg]

I’ll be using the G3 16200, with 4x3.25 field, using the 0.73 reducer, comes bloody close but doesn’t quite pick up both in one frame :(

[Retrograde]

Very nice George. Great to see a less well-known object being imaged. :thumbsup:

[vlazg]

Thanks Pete, my imaging time up here is limited from June to maybe September, after that, cloud, high temp and humidity, chance of rain..I can’t image from home, too much vegetation so I put everything away..
Finding something different each time is getting harder

[Andy01]

That’s cool George, reminds me of the hammers from Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” clip.
Well done! :thumbsup:

[Ryderscope]

A fascinating field George and well presented :thumbsup:

[vlazg]

Thanks Rodney, I’m setting up a mosaic to include it and Barnards galaxy



Thanks Andy, my medical background thinks it looks like an X-ray of a knee joint.