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Martin Pugh
02-04-2012, 12:24 AM
Hello all
I got the coordinates for this target from a British astronomer who tells me there are no colour images of this object (perhaps there is?)

Anyway, it is an arc shaped nebula with a small reflection nebula at the centre.

HaLRGB image consisting of 7:2:1:1:1 hours, taken with my remote observatory (Heaven's Mirror) at Sierra Remote in California.

http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.a u/Uncatalogued.jpg (5mb)

thanks for looking!

cheers
Martin

Paul Haese
02-04-2012, 09:09 AM
Interesting looking nebula. Maybe just a little too red for my taste, but low noise and stars are good as always.

Peter Ward
02-04-2012, 10:29 AM
I take it that your remote set-up is at some altitude (Sierras), as superb seeing like that rarely happens in my neck of the woods (ie sea level)

Anyway, sublime stuff Martin.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

jjjnettie
02-04-2012, 11:24 AM
Such tight tight stars. Thanks for sharing Martin.

TheDecepticon
02-04-2012, 01:53 PM
Very nice Martin. :thumbsup:

Gotta love your remote location's seeing.:eyepop:

gregbradley
02-04-2012, 03:01 PM
A great image Martin. I tend to agree with Paul in that it appears a bit too brown/dull red. Whilst it gives a kind of angry look in some areas it does detract a little from the overall impression of the image. A bit red, yellow biased?

Obviously seeing and tight stars are a trademark of this image plus its of something as you say perhap never imaged before which is amazing in itself.

Greg.

strongmanmike
02-04-2012, 03:04 PM
Lovely delicate capture of something I don't think I have seen before :question: ... it is hard to comment on the colour other than it looks ok to me :)

Mike

allan gould
02-04-2012, 04:56 PM
That is a wonderful image. Lots of detail and subtle hues. Really nice, Martin and thanks for showing.

Martin Pugh
02-04-2012, 07:16 PM
Hello folks and thanks for the posts.

Yes Peter, Sierra Remote is at just under 5000ft elevation and has excellent seeing, although, this Winter has been largely unusable I must say.

Too red? Interesting you should say that as this object was described to me as being a 'globule in a sea of nebulosity' and the Ha frames certainly show that. Believe it or not, I really dialled back the Ha contribution, but I think its ok.

thanks again
Martin

Paul Haese
02-04-2012, 08:58 PM
That makes sense Martin. Forgetting that this might actually be in a much larger field full of Ha. Thanks for the explanation.

Ross G
03-04-2012, 06:36 AM
A great looking photo Martin.

An amazing capture.

Ross.

multiweb
03-04-2012, 08:37 AM
A really nice shot. Very subtle colors and a beautiful very rich field. :thumbsup:

gregbradley
03-04-2012, 08:50 AM
Thanks for the explanation also Martin and well done on capturing an image of an unimaged object! Man that is every astrophotographers dream.

The sky is so well photographed its hard to think there was something someone missed!

Greg.

Leonardo70
03-04-2012, 06:40 PM
Amazing shot.

Congratulations,
Leo

Martin Pugh
03-04-2012, 06:59 PM
Thanks again everyone.
I sent it off to the British astronomer, who was very pleased with the result.

BTW - in the science community, the globule is known as BD+40◦4124 star forming region and of course, there must be a very large number of mosaic/widefield shots of Cygnus which actually shows this, just not at this scale.

appreciate the comments folks.

Martin

Stevec35
03-04-2012, 09:44 PM
The usual high class effort Martin

Cheers

Steve

TrevorW
06-04-2012, 10:15 AM
Nice one Martin what is the size of the field