Medusa's Hair

[Ken Crawford]

Hello,

It has been awhile since I posted and I am sorry I have not kept up with everything going on here. Lot's of amazing images have been done by all of you and I miss the southern skies very much. Our weather in Northern CA has been terrible and I have snow again this morning!

I have been able to finally get enough data over the last few months to complete this project of the Medusa Nebula. I have presented this in two different color mapping schemes - one mapped to "natural" color and the other with Ha mapped to orange. I met Professor Travis Rector at AIC2005 where he became one of my image processing mentors. He has produced several planetary nebula with Ha as the burnt orange color which it is easier to see the faint stuff.

Below the Zoomify image you will find an image that you can mouse over and see the two types. Click on it and you will be taken to the "super natural" mapped color image.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Nebulae/Medusa/Medusa.htm


If you are interested, here is a link to Dr. Travis Rector's images taken with professional systems and the mosaic 1 camera ($2.5 million CCD system).
http://aftar.uaa.alaska.edu/gallery/index.cfm?filter=digital

Thanks for taking the time to look . . . .

Kindest Regards,

[jjjnettie]

ooooh and ahhhh Ken.
Eye candy for a geeky gal. :)

[multiweb]

Great shot. Orange contains more green than red which the eye is more sensitive to. Good idea to map Ha this way. Your mate's site is really amazing, so are the toys he gets to play with :)

[telecasterguru]

Ken,

Amazing images and I like the ultra colour one which seems to change the intensity of the stars.

Frank

[TrevorW]

Unusual the way the dust seems overly smooth

[Octane]

Ken,

That is sublime. Wonderful work!

H

[John Hothersall]

The Ha and O3 go very deep indeed, excellent.

John.

[allan gould]

Stunning image, Ken

[spearo]

very nice
thanks
frank

[iceman]

That's a beautiful image Ken, thanks for posting.
Looks like braiiins!

[Hagar]

Lovely. As always a stunning image Ken.

[astrospotter]

This image is a very 3D looking image and is a remarkable work to be sure.
I too am in CA but in the San Jose area.

But 'only' 540 minutes of Ha? Why didn't you go deep?:eyepop: That is one heck of a deep shot and maintains fantastic detail so as to draw you into the bubble to inspect the fine wall there to the right.

I have a medusa shot in progress but now I think I will just erase the entire folder. ;)


Mark

[Leonardo70]

A very stunning image...i never seen before like this.

Congratulations,
Leo

[Paul Haese]

Very nice images Ken. Love the up close images, superb.

[Lester]

Thanks Ken for the wonderful view.

[Ken Crawford]

Thanks for the kind comments, I am very much looking forward meeting those who can make it to AAIC ...

Kindest Regards,