NGC6164 Hot star bubble close in

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F4.53, ATK-16HR, Astrodon Ha5nm OIII 3nm and RGB for stars.

Ha-2hrs in 10min subs.
O3-8hrs in 15min subs.
RGB-10x2min subs each for stars.

Taken throughout second half of July this conspicuous object with 2 bright patches either side of a bright 5th mag star with faint outer filamentary shells. This object should have a name, bright patch looks like 'safety goggles'?

Others have caught this object in widefield showing filaments well so though it needed a closer view. Had problems with secondary collimation as mirror seemed to move ever so slightly when slewed so now it is tightly set. Looks like a bipolar planetary nebula.

Type O star at 40x Sun's mass and very hot throws off outer most shells of gas periodically like Bubble Nebula NGC7635 in Cassiopeia, it will live to only 6mill years and is past halfway. Object is 4,200lyrs away and 4.2 lyrs across.

Thanks for looking, John.

[DavidU]

Amazing set of images John, wonderful.

[strongmanmike]

....?......:question:.....WOW?

Friggen awesome John :thumbsup:

The first one looks like it was taken through the Canada France Hawaii telescope or something :eyepop: there's detail in details - love the little turquoise speaker cone just left of the star.

Really makes me want to take the AG12 to better skies/seeing now :thumbsup:

Mike

[Alchemy]

Lovely work John, I like the variety and quality of your work, something new every time.
It's amazing the subjects there that just need a different eye to reveal the unexpected. Keep it up !!

[allan gould]

Staggering image with so much detail. It's good to see something not imaged by most others. Really well processed as well.

[jjjnettie]

Ditto to what they said.
Wowee!

[Stevec35]

Terrific set of images John.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

My God those images are incredible. Your best image to date.

I like the 2nd one the best. Your optics are sharp as bro.

I am amazed at the level of detail you have picked up.

Do you think the 3nm O111 was a big part of that?

Greg.

[Octane]

Those are incredible, John. Wow.

H

[alexch]

Incredible detail! Wow!

[CoolhandJo]

What the? No way! Totally aewsome!

[marco]

Incredible details John, an amazing result! I love the pics you are posting here, as Mike said most seems to have been taken with much larger scope!

Clear Skies
Marco

[Hagar]

These are wonderful John. The detail and colour are truely wonderful.

One for the pool room.

[atalas]

OMG! John,fantastic work! wow,the bubbles....I think this is amongst the most exciting work I've seen this year! congrats on an awesome display of images.

[John Hothersall]

Thanks for the response I appreciate it. I discovered this object in Marco's widefield APOD image with a faint halo around the bright bubble.



Yes Greg the O3 has a transmission of 97%+ (at F8) which for 3nm is astonishing and it gives a noise free image with less noise than the Ha5nm filter, 3nm is the way to go for NB.

Attached Ha5nm and OIII 3nm raw images 10/15min subs.

The Orion Optics SPX has 1/10.5 wavefront primary but seldom works at that level with avg seeing but is great for planetary -a very flexible scope.

Discovering all these new objects in my new home of Australia is great fun and never ending.

Regards, John.

[Paul Haese]

Superb images John. Fantastically detailed with smooth processing. The gas bubbles are fascinating. Lovely work.

[iceman]

I was blown away by the detail. Incredible work John.

This is now IOTW (http://www.iceinspace.com.au).

[Ross G]

Hi John,

They are incredible photos!

Congratulations on IOTW.

Thanks.

Ross.

[sjastro]

Excellent images.

Do you have higher resolution images available?

Steven

[gregbradley]

Congrats on IOTW John. Well deserved.

Greg.

[RB]

I agree, incredible work, well done John and congrats on IOTW, well deserved !

:thumbsup:

[Suzy]

:jawdrop: Words fail me as to all that detail captured in those images. Jaw dropping stuff. Well done John.

[richardo]

Great work with the added OIII to bring out the delicate bubble John!
Very well executed and and well thought out!
Enjoyed the image and is nicely balanced between the Ha/ OIII & BB filters.

Certainly an interesting object/ star. Being a very hot 'O' type star, they also consider it to be a Wolf Rayet candidate....

Great stuff!

Rich

[Martin Pugh]

Lovely image John. Nicely resolved, and the addition of the OIII has enhanced some very nice features.

cheers
Martin

[atalas]

Congrats on this weeks IOTW John! no surprise.

[multiweb]

Well deserved IOTW. What a corker!. Best I've seen of the area. :thumbsup:

[John Hothersall]

Very flattered with IOTW appreciate comments thankyou, as imagers on this Forum produce such impressive work.




The crop of the bubble is at the highest resolution Steven, could do with a bigger sensor though for nebula, the ATK is better for galaxies and PN.

Thanks again, John.

[Leonardo70]

Super Image ... congratulations for the IOTW.
Fantastic work.

All the best,
Leo

[SkyViking]

Wow that's a fantastic image John! I really like this hi-res stuff and you have certainly chosen a very interesting target and displayed it very well. Colours and processing seem spot on as usual, very nice!
Thanks for the view.

[Ric]

What a wonderful image John, excellent work.

Also congrats for making IOTW, it is very deserving.

[telecasterguru]

Way cool.

[strongmanmike]

Have to say Johnny, I love this image, it really is a beauty and one of the most or perhaps the most compeling image displayed on this site this year...heck, maybe ever..? I can't get over the OIII details, the whole scene keeps my looking.

Great work, love it.

Mike

[Osirisra]

As everyone else said John...Wow!

[Lester]

Top class image John and congratulations for IOTW, perhaps as Mike eluded to could be IOTY.

[dj gravelrash]

Absolutely mesmerising--well done m8. Hope one day i can take pics of that quality:thumbsup:

[LucasB]

Beautiful photos John. Congrats on IOTW. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Lucas

[RickS]

That's a stunning image, John! I must have missed it back in 2011 :)

I have been working on this target for a couple of nights and hope I can do half as good a job...

Cheers,
Rick.

[alpal]

Fantastic image although it's not showing as IOTW for me
even on 2 different browsers.

[pluto]

I think it was IOTW back in 2011.

[alpal]

Of course - it's not a recent post. :thanx: