[Peter.M]

Originally Posted by stevous67

Cool!

Steve

Thanks Steve

Originally Posted by Larryp

You've certainly picked up heaps of faint nebulosity there, Peter-great image!

Cheers Larry

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice work, Peter. I have spent quite a few nights doing narrowband on the Helix lately and those faint extensions are a challenge!

Thanks Rick, I agree. I think the only thing working against me now is my image scale and the aperture of my scope. Greg had an interesting idea to bin my images for the outer halo but I think that for now this will do me.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Good work Peter. Great to see some magadata imaging going on. Its definitely the way to go and the results speak for themselves.

Greg.

Thankyou Greg, It takes alot out of you setting up every night packing in and going to work tired. But getting pleasing results makes it all worth it.

Originally Posted by naskies

That's looking quite nice, Peter. I can see a lot of very faint nebulosity coming through in the background. Look forward to seeing Ha/OIII mix.

This version is definitely conservative, there is more there but I wanted to go for the ultra smooth look first. I have 8 hours of O3 data to play with now, in 2 nights I got 10 hours of ha and 8 hours of o3 not bad going when the weathers good!

Originally Posted by jase

Looking great Peter. The shockwave bow to the 8 o'clock position is a good sign you're going deep. Dare I say it you could go deeper to pick up the jets at the 2 o'clock position. Perhaps they are already present in the data, just need to nurtured out with selective processing. This is a cracking start in what I suspect will be a splendid image. Looking forward to seeing updates as you progress. Well done.

Thankyou Jase, I have always been fond of this object and hope to do it justice in my bi colour image. I am not sure if I will get the full shockwave out of the data, but I will try as they are interesting.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A meagre 23 hrs, bah piece of cake, walk in the park well done, looks great

Ah sign... the days of marathon 2hr eye guided photos are long gone....



Mike

Thanks Mike, Im sure we have shared the pain of setting up every night. You have a few years on me so I guess I can forgive the dome! Boy am I glad hand guiding is dead and gone, else I would need to have had a refractor! bugger contorting to the OAG position on my scope.

Thanks for all the replies, as I said I got 8 hours of O3 last night and will be fumbling my way through making a bi-colour image from the 2 data sets.