Ic5070 & ngc7000

[Martin Pugh]

...otherwise known as the Pelican and North American Nebula of course.

I am happily reshooting some targets I imaged when I first arrived in the US, as the FSQ/Clement/16803 combination is consistently producing a level of fine focus/flat field I have not achieved to date. While I have been away from home with work for 3 weeks, I got most of this data before I departed, and the Nebraska Autumn is, so far, yielding a good number of imaging nights.

The difference here of course is that I have the whole scene in one frame and the 23 hours of NB data arranged in the SHO palette has come up quite nice methinks.

Anyway, here is the link to the half-sized version (2.5Mb)

http://tiny.cc/c7dgh

and for the full size look (8.5Mb) go here.
http://tiny.cc/enfzv

thanks for looking, and comments welcome as always.

cheers
Martin

[mill]

Looks wonderfull Martin, i love the contrast between the blue and yellow in the nebula.

[DavidU]

Oh my ! The depth and contrast is stunning.

[gregbradley]

A perfect image. You don't see them very often.

Greg.

[Martin Pugh]

Thank you!

cheers
Martin

[Peter Ward]

Very cool Martin. Sub zero in fact :)

[Octane]

Martin,

My goodness. That is the finest image of that region I've ever seen.

Nothing else to say other than: sublime.

WOW!

H

[jjjnettie]

Wonderful!

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop: Wow thats an awsome pic Martin i love it :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Craig_L]

Like the starlight hitting the peaks of galactic mountains. Wonderful.

[Tom Davis]

Beautiful, Martin!

Tom

[Alchemy]

That's a nice bit of imaging, has the impression of illumination from above , very 3d as a result.

[marc4darkskies]

Gorgeous Martin! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Cheers, Marcus

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Quite a treat. The contrast and details are amazing. :thumbsup:

[Martin Pugh]

Thanks again everyone - glad you liked it.

take care and clear skies

Martin

[CoolhandJo]

Does it get any better than that? Nice one.

[TrevorW]

Top shot :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Ah yes, the Eta Carina nebula of the North :rolleyes: :zzz2:

Nah, excellent example Martin, if ya gunna image a common target like this, may as well be a faultless top example :thumbsup: lovely colours.

Any trimming or is this 100% full FOV?

Mike

[Martin Pugh]

Thanks very much for the comments ladies and gents.

Hi Mike - the resultant image size here is 4042 x 4049 from 4096 x 4096 frame size - the cropping was done purely to crop out alignment areas (I use a healthy dither).

cheers
Martin

[TheAstroGuy]

Martin,

You are a natural wonder of the Astronomy world, the image is beautiful.

I love scrolling around images like that, just magnificent, just keep them coming thank you so much

Kindest Regards

Shane

[Stevec35]

Lovely as usual Martin

Cheers

Steve

[guyroch]

Dang! Quite nice... you think! You bet! This is probably the best ever NGC7000 image I've ever seen. Awesome work!

[Martin Pugh]

Thanks again everyone...appreciate the posts!


cheers
Martin