[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

What a striking and unusual image. That shaft of Ha reaching up under the dust area is very dramatic.

Thanks Greg. We originally imaged it without Ha and I could see the faint "forks" and managed to convince the rest of the team to hit it hard with the Ha filter while there was plenty of moon and not much else to do. It was definitely worthwhile.

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

This is gorgeous Rick with a colour palette I really like.

well done.

Thanks very much, Martin!

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

71.8 hours!!!!!!!!!

A lot going on there. Beautiful image.

Ta, Kevin. Long integrations are not that hard with an automated scope and a site with mostly decent weather. I chucked more than 12 hours of subs that I wasn't happy with

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow Rick that's a beautiful image and intriguing, so much to look at, well done, take a bow

A lot of shots of the vdb152 complex miss the vibrant Ha SNR tendrils but you have captured them here nicely, and I love the bright blue stars

Any very minor imperfections are only visible at the full res image, who cares

So you have been immortalised in PI..? cool!

...nuff said, I'm going back for another look

Mike

Thanks, Mikey! I normally try to tame the halos but in this image I let them run free It's a very photogenic field and I just tried not to mess it up.