Ngc6164

[Paul Haese]

Last night I had some good conditions to image this small object. It looks like a small planetary but is in fact a small emission nebula with a really large star in its center that is nearing the end of its life. The whole field is really nice with faint hydrogen seen in the upper parts of the image and the diverse star field at the bottom. It could do with some more exposure time and I will try to get this next month before going onto other things.

Click here (http://paulhaese.net/NGC6164.html)for image.

[strongmanmike]

Yeh that's a nice little neb that one near NGC 6188. There is a faint circular lobbed envelope around it too, that should start to reveal itself with more expsure :thumbsup:

Mike

[RB]

Very nice !

:thumbsup:

[atalas]

Nice work Paul.

[gregbradley]

Very nice Paul. I like the red background you picked up.

Greg.

[Hagar]

Nice little nebula Paul. Something just doesn't look right. The black looks very black and the overall image seems red tinted or something. I just can't put my finger on it.

[Paul Haese]

I don't think it is the total background as being red tinted, just the top and that is the hydrogen in the area. It only shows up in the red channel.

The black are just one of those things. This whole part of the sky I have been looking at lately has lots of this really inky black stuff everywhere. I am not sure how I make it grey given what happens to the rest of the area. I had the same problem when I did Barnard 92/93. It just did not want go from black to grey.:shrug:

[Alchemy]

Yes I recognize the one, in narrowband the shell shows up nicely, somewhat of a challenge with RGB though I would have thought.

Off the beaten path images are always welcome:thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

I did almost make a reference to your request for different images in my initial post here Clive. I just thought you might like to know that I was thinking of you.;)

Yeah it is a tough act with RGB, but I could add some narrow band to it later.

[Stevec35]

Nicely done Paul. This one responds very well to Ha.

Cheers

Steve

[Ross G]

A good photo of an object I have not seen before Paul.


Thanks.

Ross.

[jase]

You've got to be happy with that Paul. Great looking star field surrounding 6164. I enjoy the colour you've established across the scene. Well done.

[jjjnettie]

Very sweet little neb. :)

[desler]

Thanks for the view Paul, I really like the starcolours.

Darren

[SkyViking]

That's a nice contrasty image and a beautiful little nebula. Thanks for sharing.

[richardo]

A classic little neb and good image here Paul.
Had always noticed this little guy to the outer edge of my fov in my previous setups, but opted for the larger Ngc6188..

Finally imaged it back in 08.
The interesting thing about this neb is that it is bi polar. (poor thing) Meaning it appears the star is giving off extreme radiation to its poles and exciting those areas of the surrounding gas.

I have a bit more of a description on this object and the extraordinary star at the heart.

Linked here (http://www.baytop-observatory.com/ccdimages/nebulae/ngc6164newt.htm) if your interested.

Nice to have some decent weather hay!
More coming.. so hope your getting down to Clayton Bay after work.

Cheers
Rich

[Paul Haese]

Thanks Rich. I did some reading up on this before imaging it. Certainly the central star is of interest.