IC 2948 -- 23 hours of chicken

[Tom Davis]

For the last little while I have been imaging the so called "Running
Chicken Nebula". I haven't been able to see the chicken with any
confidence, but this is the best guess orientation that I could come
up with. Lots of clouds have have been interrupting the imaging so I
ended up with more data than I thought. Imagine that, more data,
rather than my usual "not enough"data!!

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007e.htm


Comments or criticisms welcome.

Best regards,
Tom

[h0ughy]

wwwwooowww, that has heaps of everything, absolutely amazing shot.

[multiweb]

Wow, very nice. I can see the chicken alright. Right in the middle of the light blue part in the center. Very nicely done. :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Now that's stunning. So smooth, so detailed.

[allan gould]

You'll have to clean your objective as the photo is covered by very, very small white dots :D
A most excellent photo brilliantly processed.

[Peter Ward]

Delightfully smooth data. Needle point stars.

Beautiful work.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[jase]

Nicely done Tom. The chicken has been cooked to perfection with 23hours of data along with some special herbs and spices to taste. Thanks for sharing this visual feast.

[Craig_L]

A gourmet chicken for sure!

[Alchemy]

nicely done, lots of detail, one that caught my interest is the blue shell /spot to the upper left. any ideas as to what it is?

[Lester]

Fantastic, a credit to you.

[TrevorW]

Awesome :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thum bsup:

[troypiggo]

That is absolutely stunning! Love it!

[astroron]

Stunning image :eyepop: but I am not coming into what the "Blue Dot" is after the Omega Centauri saga;)

[Paul Haese]

While I don't really go for narrow band images, this is one image that is very nicely done. Lovely sharp star and lots of detail visible. Thanks for posting.

[jjjnettie]

Excellent!

[tornado33]

Excellent work. A marathon effort. In fact I was inspired by it to image that little Planetary nebula that is clearly visible there :)

How many nights were involved in getting the data?
Scott

[alan meehan]

They dont come much better than this ,Brilliant colour almost 3D Well done Tom.

[MrB]

Unreal!

(only word I could think of that hadn't been said already)

[gregbradley]

Brilliant Tom, the best I have seen of this area.

Greg.

[DavidU]

:eyepop:Excellent detail

[strongmanmike]

Lovely work again Tom :thumbsup:

...you never did post one of those bad ones you mentioned though :whistle:

Mike

[spearo]

Awesome
top notch
love the detail in the nebula, sharp edges and smooth nebulosity with beautiful colors. Perfect stars.
Stunner shot
hope it makes its way onto an A3 to display proudly
frank:thumbsup:

[Octane]

Tom,

That is one of the grandest astrophotographs I have ever seen.

15 Internets to you, sir.

Regards,
Humayun

[astroron]

I thought it was a PN but was waiting for someone else to say it:P

[Tom Davis]

Planetary nebula PK294-00 1.

Tom

[Tom Davis]

To some people I hear from every image I do is a bad one :shrug:

I think they don't like my processing style. I just keep trying to improve.

Tom

[Tom Davis]

Hi Scott,

About five nights.

Tom

[JD2439975]

If photons had sex...this would be porn. :lol:

JD

[strongmanmike]

:eyepop: .........:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::r ofl::rofl::rofl:......:screwy:

I can see why though Tom, they are jealous so will find fault in your processing to satisfy there ego..?:screwy:...although it gets kinda pretty boring always saying that's brilliant or that's amazing etc so trashing your work...?....ah yes, might be fun? :D

God that's a crap image Tom! :mad2:......ah yes, that felt good :thumbsup:

[madwayne]

Apart from Mike's banter about it being terrible, ;), there is nothing I can add here Tom that hasn't already been said, but I will say it again anyway. Simply a beautiful image of a lovely part of our sky superbly captured and processed.

Many thanks for sharing your chicken feast with us all.

Wayne

[rat156]

I can add something non-constructive...

You're a rotten mongrel. I'm part way through capturing the same object, though at a much longer FL. I started it at least two weeks ago and the skies haven't cleared since...

At least now I have an image to judge my work by, and some extra targets in the near vicinity that I now don't have to look for, I can just use your image as a map.

From the one OIII sub I did, I didn't get anywhere near that amount of OIII, I haven't gotten to SII yet.

I love the image, great work. Five nights though, not sure if I have the patience.

Cheers
Stuart

[Tom Davis]

Try binning your OIII and SII. You will get so much more signal.

Tom