[Paul Haese]

Thanks Russell, Rod, Mike and Marc for your comments. Much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Bassnut

wow, thats different, excellent detail Paul.

Thanks Fred. I was surprised at the level of detail to be seen.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I don't think I've seen this object before. Great work.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. Actually, I think you might have seen this before. Mike Sidonio did this object as his first image from his current observatory. His detail level looks a bit different to mine, no doubt different application of the data influenced both images.

Originally Posted by jase

Tough little target Paul. A great image. For only narrowband data, your star colours are near perfect. Nice!

Thanks Jase, I have been playing around with combinations in NB to produce RGB colour combinations. It usually takes several different combinations to work. Martin has a technique which works without going to this hassle. He mentioned it to me some time ago, but it largely went in one ear and out the other. I would prefer to use his technique as all his stars look near perfect.

Originally Posted by gvanhau

Nice capture Paul

I did this object a couple of years ago...I prefer to look at it upside down, then it resembles a goldfish ...


Geert

Thanks Geert, there are several compositions which can look good, vertical looks pretty good generally, but I did not go looking. Thanks for the idea.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Beautiful image Paul You evidently got a lot more detail here than I did when I imaged this one under poor seeing conditions. Really shows how important seeing is for these tiny objects
This object is a gem, and very colourful both in NB and RGB. Thanks for the view!

Thanks Rolf. I might get some RGB data yet for a screen wash over the NB data. RGB images show some nice reds.

I had a couple of subs that were not that great seeing wise and that meant I had to work the data quite a bit to sharpen it without it looking too sharpened.

I reckon Mike's 20" CDK would give a better scale again on this object. 2.4 metres is just not quite enough.