Thors Helmet 6:15 hours

[gregbradley]

I took this over the Christmas/New Years period but have had it sitting around until I was happy with the processing.

HaLRGB 6 hours 15 minutes.

TEC180FL, FLI Microline 8300, Astronomik filters.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/108595534

Greg.

[Bassnut]

wow, beautifully smooth and detailed Greg, very nice.

[renormalised]

Another great image, fantastic colours and great image depth.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Fred. It took a long while to get it right.




Thanks for that!

Greg.

[Omaroo]

Great image Greg. Nice colour and smoothness.

Tip: If you're putting it up for public viewing then a "Helmut" is an angry dog, whereas "Helmet" is what the Vikings wore.

[gregbradley]

I can't believe I mispelt it - that's hilarious:lol:

Unfortunately I can't edit the title of the thread.

Greg.

[Omaroo]

hehe.. our little secret Greg :)

To edit the title, edit and then press the "edit" at the bottom of the post. This will take you back into full edit mode, where you can change the title if you like.

[leon]

Wow Greg, that 6 plus hours certainly paid off, well done indeed a beautiful image.

Leon

[gregbradley]

Way to go Chris - thanks.

Don't tell anyone about spelling gaffe, I pride myself on my literacy (plus $50 is on its way in the mail hehehe)

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Leon.

The main problem I had was the stars were very dominating in the original result. This is also a crop - maybe 60% so its zoomed in as well.

Greg.

[Quark]

Hi Greg,
What a lovely rendition, love the delicate detail you have captured.

As you have mentioned, this region is dominated by the density of the star field but your image is deep enough to really do justice to the very fine filaments of ionized gas that appear close to the central Wolf Rayet star which is the source of excitation.

I really love this image, top job.

Regards
Trevor

[jjjnettie]

That's an extraordinary picture.
Excellent work.:thumbsup:

When I showed your image to my family, they pointed out to me something within the picture.
In this crop, can you see the profile of a Koala facing to the right? :)

[gregbradley]

Thanks Trevor.

It is a beautiful if faint object. I didn't want to rush it as I knew it was faint. It comes out fairly well in Ha though.

Greg.

[h0ughy]

wow what a fantastic image - with so much detail within it and so much of the extents shown around it it looks a little like the running logo from the Beijing Olympics

[Ric]

An awesome image Greg and such wonderful detail.

Cheers

[gregbradley]

Thanks Houghy and Ric.

Cheers,

Greg.

[pgc hunter]

wow beautiful image! 10/10 from me Greg!

[gregbradley]

Thank you!

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Lovely detailed captured Greg.

Greg, have you considered that the image might be a little on the red side? I noted that all the stars appear to be white. I think that there is a red giant in this field. Probably wrong, but just thought I would ask.

[strongmanmike]

Excellent job Greg, the detail in the main nabula is beautiful and subtle, nicely framed too, did you crop much..?

Jeanette, I see the Koala face too,very obvious, in fact it should be called the Koala Nebula!

Mike

[gregbradley]

Anything's possible when it comes to colour Paul!:lol: I used Rob Gendler's as a guide and he shows a reddish background also which is a low level gas background that comes up in the Ha. I figured it was just showing that.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Jeanette. Yeah it does look like a Koala. We should take it over and rename it.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

The crop is about 60% of the original image as I recall.

Greg.

[Jeff]

Wow Greg!

I previously had no idea where the Thors Helmut was, but as Bruce McAvaney would say ... "that's special"

Jeff

[spearo]

very nice inded
well done
a lot of effort producing some nice fine detail
cheers
frank

[gregbradley]

Thanks Jeff.




Thanks Frank. It did take a bit of effort but the basic data was good.

Greg.

[bluescope]

Nice job Greg ... I've only ever seen images of Thor's Helmet that were very small in frame ... nice to see the detail in your shot !

:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Thanks Steve.

Greg.

[jase]

It needs some OIII Greg. This target has an abundance of it. Not sure if your colour balance was up to speed on this one or perhaps you had some problems with gradients. Still a fine image. Well done.

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: once again lovely pic Greg i love your work cheers ;)

[gregbradley]

Thanks very much Jen. Nice of you to say so.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Jase. I may add some O111 next trip before its gone for the year.

No problems with gradients. Perhaps a bit of general Ha spreads through the background of the image giving a slight red cast perhaps but ob Gendlers version his shows that as well. I can check it if I add some O111.

Greg.