[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

yep after spending some time on this recently i am impressed with the inner detail ... perhaps i need more FL.. really well captured and processed Paul ..very close to Don's fantastic rendition. i hope you get the time to gather the extra O3 i reckon that will add something extra to this great version. (fingers crossed for the weather hey!)


Regards,


Russ

Thanks Russ for the compliment. Focal length certainly has an impact upon how much actual resolution that can be obtained per pixel. Though impressive results can be obtained with instruments of lesser focal lengths.

The weather as you would know near our way has been a little cloudy in the last couple of months, so imaging time has been a little harder to come by. I anticipate I will have enough nights yet to complete the image fully. If not there is always next year.

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice job, Paul. The Oiii is very weak, as you'd have noticed. Look forward to the final version.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick. The OIII is as you rightly point out is very weak to the point of requiring lots of subs to really start to have an impact. I think another 10 hours will work for me, but I am open to the idea that it will need more than that.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That looks awesome. So much detail in the petal.

Very impressive.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I did a combination of different types of sharpening to provide the detail layer mask for the image. It involved deconvolution which is layer masked at a rate of 35% over the top of further selective masking techniques. I am hoping once I get the AOX up and running, my images will have a further impact.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Quite splendid, Paul, with lots of very fine detail both in the outer OIII ring and in the inner workings around the central star, including that thingy that looks like a loudspeaker cone.

I notice a patch of bright red just where it ought to be for SII at the tip of the 2pm bipolar lobe. Does the image contain SII mapped to red ?

Best,
Mike

Thanks Mike. In the full res image, there are very tiny feathery aspects to the cloud formations around that cone shaped area. I sort of like the OIII luminance over some of those areas around the main star too and that ribbon type gas running vertically on the left hand side. There looks like there are seams there in the gas. If only I had the AOX working for this data. I am still unfortunately waiting for an adapter to arrive. I have had some nice seeing in the last week for very long periods of several hours at a time.

There is no SII mapped to red in this image. I think it is most likely just where I ramped up the saturation and the pink popped to red. I don't actually know if there is much point to doing any SII on this object. It might be interesting to find out. I think though there is none there.