Barnard's Galaxy - Widefield with IFN

[Ryderscope]

For this imaging project I have collaborated with my good friend and imaging colleague, Niall MacNeill to present a widefield image of Barnard's Galaxy that includes the surrounding fields of IFN (a.k.a. Galactic Cirrus). The RGBHa data were sourced from my TSA120/ASI2600 set up and the luminance data from both my set up and from Niall's C14 Edge HD/Hyperstar/ASI6200. Full acquisition details can be found in the Astrobin post.

This has been an interesting project to try out a collaboration given that our respective system specifications lend themselves nicely to sharing data across projects. In this case it was particularly suitable given that a lot of signal is needed to bring out the faint nebulosity of the IFN.

I've been particularly interested in IFN/Galactic Cirrus and spent a little time looking into the the basic physics of the phenomena and have include a summary of this in my Astrobin post.

Link to Astrobin post here. (https://astrob.in/4lo8f9/0/)

CS,
Rodney

[MortonH]

Very ethereal. Love it.

[alpal]

Very nice indeed Rodney,
it's the best one I can find showing both the Cirrus and the galaxy.

cheers
Allan

[Dave882]

Wow thats amazing mate. Glorious detail, the colour and those Ha bubbles are stunning and the IFN is very well resolved. Very interesting write-up on the Astrobin page too. Everyone needs to see that high res version!
Congrats to both of you on a very successful project.

[Ryderscope]

Thanks team for the feedback. We do have an opportunity now to explore further projects. It was good spending extra time peering into the research on IFN as we come away better informed at the end of the process.

[multiweb]

That's very cool Rodney :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Good collaboration and very interesting blurb about IFNs.
I tried a few times around the south pole in widish fovs and found them very hard to process let alone capture.

[strongmanmike]

Great result Rod as I said on ABin, the galactic cirrus is well-handled and the final scene is reminiscent of flotsam and jetsam, or a big jelly fish, gently washing on a shallow tidal flat, nice work :thumbsup:

Mike

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Marc/Mike. Yes it can be a little challenging and time consuming to work with the faint signal. Clearly a better result with the additional luminance data from both systems.

[petershah]

Saw this on AB .... just beautiful

[Ryderscope]

Many thanks Peter.

[gaseous]

Amazing photo! Lovely capture of the Little Gem PN as well.

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Patrick. Finding that PN in the field was a bonus as at first I was wondering what the heck this over saturated bright green star was. Upon investigation I realised that it was a PN. I then took the time to make sure that the object did not get overblown during post processing.

[seeker372011]

Love it!

Narayan