[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

This is an image I captured over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately the jpg doesn't do the detail many favours, as w all know I suppose. We used to call this the Ghouls head (rotate 80 degrees CW). It looks a bit M42'ish with hot young stars in the centre forming a bowl structure.

Imaged with Televue np 101is and ST8300M. Astronomik 6nm Ha and Astrodon E Series RGB. Ha is a HDR of exposures from 1.5 min to 8 min (10 of each x 4 steps) and RGB are each just 6 exposures of 5 min each.

I used Ken Crawford's MLDB and depth of field processing techniques in CS3 trying to bring the cloud edges to the front and the centre of the bowl behind them, and basic DBE, etc in PI.

Dunno if I'm real happy with the colour but the stars look ok on this monitor so i'll leave it for now - ordered a Spyder on Friday so my calibration woes should be fixed next week.

Mark Bolton