The Crescent and the Soap Bubble

[petershah]

The Crescent and the Soap Bubble in Cygnus. I imaged this one in RGB H-alpha and Oxygen III remotely from Spain with the AG14 Newtonian and the FLI Kepler 4040 CMOS. Exposure times were 60s x 60 each in RGB, 180s x 120 in Ha, 227 x 180s in OIII, giving a total integration time of just over 21 hours. Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop.

I love the faint wisps of OIII around 34 Cyg near the bottom of the frame.

Thanks for looking

Peter Shah��

https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/kio6sdPr-tGl_16536x0_b9muqi8S.jpg

[strongmanmike]

Yeah, lovely Pete...ooh look! soap bubbles, very cool :thumbsup:

Mike

[petershah]

cheers Mike :thumbsup:

[MLParkinson]

Wow! So many talented astrophotographers under Ice in Space.

If I am lucky an asteroid will crash into the North Pole and tilt the Earth's rotation axis 30 degrees towards the south so that I can image this beautiful field. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :lol:

[petershah]

Thank you.....I am with you on this!!! there's so much to image in the South makes us Northerners a tad jealous

[Stephane]

Peter, a very fine image with sone nice colours and detail. One that we don’t see how much “down” here!

[markas]

Great image - that soap bubble is very realistic:D

Mark

[petershah]

Thanks...The Crescent quite a popular target up North but you done often see it with the Soap Bubble.


Thank you ....The Soap Bubble is a very strange looking thing...It was discovered in 2007, its so faint it gets lost in broad band and is not visible in H-alpha, it only really shows in the O3 and even then extremely faint.