[Paul Haese]

Thanks all for the comments and observations. Much appreciated.

Originally Posted by RickS

Some lovely dark tendrils, Paul. Reminds me just a little of NGC 2170.

Cheers,
Rick.

Yeah me too. When I was processing it I was thinking it looked a little like 2170 too.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Lovely! Thanks for the astrophysical background - it adds greatly to my understanding of the image and what's going on.

I think the bright stars are as they should be - this is a faint nebula in a very bright star field, and it should look like that.

I also very much like the high-contrast processing and the colour balance, which avoids the old-style "everything magenta" film look, and gives it a slightly narrowband feel that goes well with the dynamic astrophysics.

Best,
Mike

Thanks Mike for your thoughts. It always seems to be a hard task to balance out images when you are using NB data with LRGB and the one can run the risk of making things look too magenta. Done that recently myself with IC427, which I am still not 100% happy with at present. However, every now and again I find that things just come together. This is one such occasion.

Originally Posted by beren

beautiful image Paul well done, been a while since I checked your Earth and Cosmos site quite a collection of fine images you have accumulated, outstanding work. Notice you use maxim dl and ccd stack, do you do all the registration and stacking work in ccd stack?

Thanks Stuart. MaximDL is only used for acquisition, which is a real shame as the programme is very powerful. I used CCDstack 2 entirely for calibration and stacking. It generally works very well, though now and again registration can be a little stubborn.