Witch Head

[atalas]

Hi All

Well,the last of the Witch Head for the season! although very low at the moment and because I love the faint and dusty region I decided to give her a go as she fly's away.


Object: IC 2118 (Witch Head)

Exposures: 10 minutes x 18 (guided)

Telescope: FSQ 106N

Camera: SXVF-M25c

http://www.atalas.net/components/com_expose/showpic.html?img=expose/img/img_1238669984_308_lg.jpg&caption=Witch%20Head(IC%202118)&date=&location=

Thanks for looking !

[jase]

Great composition Louie. Framing is tight. You've managed the colour tones well showing the interesting dusty reflection nebulosity. Well done.

[Tom Davis]

Nicely done. This is a tough target.

Tom

[troypiggo]

Always amazes me just how much it does look like a witch's head. Great detail.

[spearo]

great capture
awesome field of view and framing too
looks great
frank

[mexhunter]

Hi atalas:
Excelent capture. It's a hard target.
Many grettings
Cesar

[Paul Haese]

Lovely image, I like the colouring of the image too.

[RB]

First thing I did before opening the image was to notice you captured 3 hours of data and said to myself, this will be good !

Well it's fantastic !!
Wonderful colour and detail rendition on such a difficult object.
Framing and image scale - perfect.

Well done Louie.

:thumbsup:

[marc4darkskies]

Just a lovely image Louie! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Great colours! Well done!

Cheers, Marcus

[Lester]

Yep, thats a beauty, well done, on such a faint area.

[Quark]

Hi Louie,
What a lovely image of a most difficult object, love the fine detail colour and structure. As Andrew has already remarked, 3 hrs of data makes for a truly stunning result.

Well done
Cheers
Trevor

[Craig_L]

Lovely detail and colours Louie.

[strongmanmike]

Lovely rendition of this mystical target Louie :thumbsup:

I LIKE IT :thumbsup: (said in the late Big Kev's voice)

You do that excellent Starlightxpress one shot camera very proud.....the super scope helps too :D

Mike

[bluescope]

Nice definition of the Old Crone there Louie !

:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Nice image Louie. I captured that one earlier but didn't post it.

Its an interesting object and you caught it well.

Greg.

[multiweb]

Wow. Great colors. Pretty cool. :thumbsup:

[Hagar]

Lovely image. The colour and detail are really well done. I particularly like the little dragon or crocodile head with glowing eyes in the top of the image.

Well done,

[bert]

Very nice Louie. I love the colour of the stars.

Did you capture that at O'connell?

Brett

[Inmykombi]

Wow.
I agree with all the other comments....
My understanding is that the Witchhead is a dim and hard to capture target.
You have done well with this one.
Very nice detail.

Good work.

Geoffro.

[h0ughy]

fantastic image Louie

[atalas]

Hi guy's ! thanks so much for the feedback ! I was in two minds about shooting the Witch because she was so low,and that causes many processing issues but I guess I done ok....thanks again.

[atalas]

Hi Bert ! yes mate,shot at O'Connell ....how's the VC200L going?

[dugnsuz]

Love this one Louie - very smooth processing job too.
Doug

[richardo]

Hi Louie,
this is a very nice image of this faint and hard to capture reflection neb...

The M25 and 'Q' are a great combo by the looks.

Like your colours and the way you've processed things.
The whole object is balanced nicely with the dusty areas at both ends and is probably the most in your face version of this object I've seen!
Great!

Gol darn those pesky satelites!


All the best
Rich

[atalas]

Hi Rich and thanks mate!

[atalas]

Hi and thanks for looking and the feedback Doug!

[avandonk]

This is a very faint object and is almost impossible to image from my place due to light pollution. You have caught the faint brownish dust that is the stuff of this reflection nebula.

Beautiful image.

Bert

[atalas]

Hi Bert

Thanks so much for your interest! true very faint and a very dark sky and long exposures needed.