Heart of the Scorpion

[JohnH]

The region around Antares is amazing - it needs more exposure time I have had to push and NR quite a bit, this is 20 mins worth of jpeg at iso 1600 with no in camera NR, darks, flats or anything. I was out late and had a few beers so was not all that bright, then the mount flipped and I was to tired to set up for another run...looks ok at this small size.

[tornado33]

Nice colours there, yellow and blue reflection nebulae.
Scott

[PhotonCollector]

Geeday John,

I tried imaging this nebulae some time ago and found it to be very very faint nebula, so you have done well to capture it.

regards

[RB]

That's very nice John, it's one of my favourite areas too.
Nice colour.
Which scope did you use?

[h0ughy]

lovely! would a little more processing necessarily bring out the colours more? No criticism , just a Question!

[JohnH]

That was with the little WO SD66, using the VC200L as the guidescope! It really was a pretty rough night for me, probably should not have been imaging so I was pleased to get some useable frames.

[JohnH]

Houghy, I probably could push the saturation more but I will try to get a better set of calibrated RAWs to work from - no beer this time - and see what I can do with those.

BTW I sure do not mind criticism - in fact I welcome it - so please if you have a tip or view on an image share it.

[iceman]

Nice one John, very pretty.

[Striker]

Nice shot John....I can see a huge improvement over widefield shots lately from the guys on this forum.

Well done John