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Old 20-01-2013, 10:22 PM
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Teal Blue Tendrils in Vela (aka The Moustache)

Managed to get a bit more data including a little RGB to complete a colour image of the Moustache. First night was good seeing and still but unfortunately I had some wind and poor seeing (and cloud) on night two .

This is a nearly 5hr narrowband-broadband (OIII+Ha) hybrid and more or less true colour image, more details under each image

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The Teal Moustache O'le!

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Old 20-01-2013, 10:32 PM
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Woo hoo!! Gorgeous Mike!! Magnificent colours and great composition!

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Old 20-01-2013, 10:36 PM
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That looks fantastic, Mike! Love the colours
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Old 20-01-2013, 10:48 PM
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Have to agree, I love the colours too.
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Old 20-01-2013, 10:52 PM
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more signal more signal.....................oh I am in tears

very happy for the result mike though it is a little noisey in the outer faint regions

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Old 20-01-2013, 11:18 PM
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Lovely, Mike! We don't need no steenking Veil
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Old 21-01-2013, 12:47 AM
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Hi Mike - that is so impressive - one to frame for the wall.
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Old 21-01-2013, 01:50 AM
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Lovely deep blue tendrils, still finding my way around Vela. The blue looks like ocean waves in the wind you battled. The nebula bottom middle shows striking dust effect.

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Old 21-01-2013, 06:32 AM
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Lovely shot and great composition Mike

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Old 21-01-2013, 07:21 AM
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A wonderful image Mike. A little underexposed though. A couple more hours would really deepen the saturation and solidity of the image.

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Old 21-01-2013, 09:12 AM
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That's a lovely moustache you've grown there Mike, very colourful!
Wonderful detail and the composition is great. The nebula at the bottom reminds me of the Flame.

I think a couple of the stars appear greenish, for example the bright one near the centre under the moustache. Probably due to the narrowband data?
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Old 21-01-2013, 09:28 AM
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A beautiful photo Mike.

Technically it is as excellent as all your work, however, it's the composition that makes this photo stand out.

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Old 21-01-2013, 05:28 PM
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Thanks for looking everyone

Just nice to be out imaging again, funny even though I only have to set up the scope in my own back yard now and I have lovely dark skies, there are still many stumbling blocks to actually getting out to image, one of my main issues is the wind here ...so this data was taken over two nights with good conditions on the first but I started late so only gathered a couple of hours, second night after I had set up and it was getting dark, I turned on the laptop (which worked this time!) and all of a sudden, like someone turned on a fan near the scope, the wind just picked up - none one second, a strong gusty breeze the next...and held on for several hours, sheesh was I pissed I continued anyway just so I could get some more data but it was obviously a little soft and not all useable ...a-n-y-w-a-y......

Green stars Rolfy?...yes I see what you mean ...only a tad green though on my screen, more like yellow with a slight green tinge ...put it down to the hybrid NB blend

Yes Greg and Houghy I agree and I wanted more data on this rather faint area (even with 12" @ F3.8) but I can't wait for ever , I get bored and want to move on, had the scope under a bag between sessions for over a week waiting for good skies, when they arrived..so did the wind argg.... been over two months since my last image too. Still, lucky I'm not using a small refractor or it would show very little...the rest is down to secret get the most form your data processing

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Old 21-01-2013, 05:51 PM
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Something to behold Mike!

Love the colour palette.

This is probably a bit difficult to answer, but how faint is the moustache compared to the pencil nebula?

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Old 21-01-2013, 05:59 PM
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Something to behold Mike!

Love the colour palette.

This is probably a bit difficult to answer, but how faint is the moustache compared to the pencil nebula?

Cheers,

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Not sure but it is faint and the intervening Ha is faint also, I note even with less than enough exposure the AG12 has revealed a lot of the teal coloured twisted tendrils though and with plenty of detail, which is good

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Not sure but it is faint and the intervening Ha is faint also, I note even with less than enough exposure the AG12 has revealed a lot of the teal coloured twisted tendrils though and with plenty of detail, which is good

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Old 21-01-2013, 06:25 PM
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Great shot Mike; some amazing colour contrasts going on there! A bit breezy? - haven't you setup your dome yet?
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Old 21-01-2013, 06:30 PM
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Great shot Mike; some amazing colour contrasts going on there! A bit breezy? - haven't you setup your dome yet?
No not yet.... finally spoke face to face with the actual land lord on site a couple of days ago, just to detail exactly what I am planing and confirm it was ok, only had the real estate agents half arsed go ahead till now

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Old 21-01-2013, 06:47 PM
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Most excellent Mike, love it.
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Old 21-01-2013, 07:44 PM
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Several objects to view and the colouring seems really nice. Not really sure about the composition but that is no huge problem, it's just different to what I would have expected.

The noise is of little concern really and an inverted mask will remove most of it anyway.
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