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Originally Posted by DJT
Hi Mike
Great framing with the cluster and neb. Nice to see something not named after an item on a menu  ..though not sure about cats paw.. |
I would have named it something had anything jumped out at me...but alas even my warped mind didn't see anything in this ink blot
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Originally Posted by telemarker
Eh?
Can't comment on the image though (blocked at work).
Regards
Keith |
Yep, moving back to the Capital soon
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Originally Posted by Rob_K
Amazing image Mike, but what's with this "Scorpio" business? Are you having a lend of us? 
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Scorpio it is
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Originally Posted by Martin Pugh
You've blended the Ha well there Mike - just the right flavour for me.
cheers
Martin
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Cheers Martin
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A wonderful image Mike. A lovely rich starfield with that terrific Ha background. I agree with Martin you got a fabulous Ha colour there. Not easy to achieve.
Greg.
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Glad you liked it Gregles
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Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman
Very very interesting. Nebulosity thru the entire field.
I can't say I have ever "been there"(or even "done that"), when it comes to this interesting field.
High quality Amateur nebula images like yours are now so much deeper even than the H-alpha surveys of the Milky Way that the "pros" did a few years ago.....I wonder if there could be some scientific value in this type of photography.
The H-alpha emission throughout your field is probably best thought of as "diffuse Hydrogen alpha emission" rather than as being an isolated nebula.
( I seem to recall that the diffuse component of the H-alpha emission of a spiral galaxy is about 50 percent of the galaxy's total Hydrogen alpha emission....but don't quote me on this)
In some circumstances, this sort of very very diffuse and very very extended H-alpha emission is at a particular velocity in our line-of-sight and this velocity can be translated to a distance estimate for the layer of H-alpha emitting gas. (obviously a velocity requires a spectrum with an H-alpha line on it)
Layers of very-extended and very diffuse H-alpha emission have been used by some professionals to trace the spiral arms of our galaxy.
I note that many amateur images of various HII regions were used in "Handbook of Star Forming Regions", a superheavyweight "professionals" guide to nebulae and gas/dust clouds in our Galaxy. Obviously, the amateur images were the best available for the objects in question!
(this book is characterized in my recent post in the "Science" forum entitled "Our Galaxy - Some recent Resources)
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Considering we can do this sort of thing even from heavily light poluted skies speaks volumes for teh progress in imaging we have enjoyed over the last decade
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Originally Posted by naskies
A beautifully rich field! I saw this region as just a little red blob in my wide field... fascinating to see it in such detail. |
That's great to hear.
Mike