IC 4633 and the surrounding IFN in Apus

[AstroJason]

Hey all,

After trialing my new Esprit 100mm out with some popular targets as "first light tests"... the Lagoon and Trifid, the Omega and Eagle Nebulae and lastly with Carina. This is my first proper project with my new scope. The IFN in Apus near the south celestial pole. It's the longest integration time I have ever gone for on one target with 16 hours all up.

96 x 10 minute subs. I should have taken just 4 more subs to crack 100 :lol: I was planning on going for over 20 hours and I may do that one day and add to the dataset with a reprocess. The thing with the location of the target is that it just skims the rooftop of my house which limited how much time I could get on it each night. But in all honesty I am not sure how much more I could improve this shot with my current camera (unmodded Canon 6D).

Integration time really helped on this dim target. Playing around with the first nights data of 5 hours worth and comparing it to the 16 hour version was night and day. As I have a weakness for dark nebulae I think I am going to break this 16 hour record soon with other targets I have planned!

Click here for the full res version on my Flickr. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonwehbe/53002565628/)

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like a Leafy Seadragon? :rofl:
For context, the background on the seadragon image is just 5 hours worth of data.

Anyway feedback always welcome and thanks for looking!

[strongmanmike]

Excellent effort Jason, your efforts have produced a very good looking image, even with some colour in the dust too. Quite amazing that you were able to produce such a good image of this pretty faint material, from Sydney! :eyepop:... and it does look like a Leafy Sea Dragon :)

Mike

[joshman]

This is absolutely fantastic. a very clean image with great detail.

I might need to add this one to a list for the OSC camera to have a go at.

[Retrograde]

That is very cool Jason. A lovely deep image of this rather amazing object! :thumbsup:

[Dave882]

Wonderful shot! Love how natural and delicate those dusty clouds appear. Stars are great too!

[AstroJason]

Thanks a lot Mike! Ops, sorry about that, a little misleading. One thing I forgot to do when I recently started posting on here again was to update my new location (Blue Mountains). All updated now though. Would be an interesting challenge to get this target from Sydney though!



Thank you Josh, I am pretty happy with the result! Took a lot of reprocessing and reprocessing and reprocessing and a little more reprocessing to get it to a level I was happy with. No doubt anyone with a dedicated astro cam will get better resolution than this! So definitely give it a go! Once I decide on an dedicated astro camera for myself I will hit this target again.



Thank you Pete, glad you like it! A lot going on in it with all those background galaxies!



Cheers Dave, glad you like it too. I really tried hard not to kill the stars off in this one, it's very easy to go overboard with that haha

[strongmanmike]

Aaaah well, that explains it then ;) great shot :thumbsup:

Has a special place in my heart (https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/sarahs_nebula) too :)

Mike

[AstroJason]

That is beautiful Mike, I am very sorry for your loss mate. It is a beautiful way to remember her.

[strongmanmike]

Thanks mate :thumbsup:...she was a beautiful young lady, on a journey to become a vet, when tragedy struck :(

Mike

[AstroJason]

Yeah Mike, it is terrible. So sad a beautiful life cut so short. I can't even begin to imagine how it must have felt for you and your family.

[AG Hybrid]

Noice.

That second picture was a major improvement though.

[AstroJason]

:lol: yeah heaps clear nebula that one. It's visible naked eye too :rofl: