Sharpless 7

[Stevec35]

This is a large and faint emission nebula surrounding the 2nd magnitude star Delta Sco. I'm going to try and get some Ha for it but the weather seems to have turned a little unreliable again. Had lots of trouble with gradients, reflections and blooms on this one. Very hard to find any images of Sharpless 7 and this image only shows the brightest part.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/Sh2-7_STL6303_FSQ.htm

[RickS]

It must be faint, Steve. An interesting looking object!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi Steve,

Tuff object!
Looks good already, can't wait to see it with the extra data.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Justin.



Thanks Rick. The bright star makes it even harder. I had never heard of it previously myself. My colleague in the US who specializes in the Sharpless objects wanted me to image it.

[Martin Pugh]

Interesting object there Steve.....not sure about the star colour though - they all appear to be reddish/brown?

cheers
Martin

[Stevec35]

Thought I saw a few white ones there Martin but you are probably right. Star colour might have suffered when I was trying to remove the gradients. I'll have a look at it.

[atalas]

Wow!what a great target choice Steve, and still turned out great despite the obvious problems....well done.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Louie. I'm going to try and get some Ha for it tonight.

[Gem]

Nice to see different targets! Nice work! :)

[Ross G]

A great capture Steve.

An amazing photo and a new object for me.

Thanks.

Ross.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Ross and Grant. I've just produced a version with Ha which I think is much better than the LRGB.

Cheers

Steve