Corona Australis Complex

[billdan (Bill)]

Well part of it, this is 6 hours total taken over the last 2 nights.

I've included a crop of the interesting bits, maybe someone can tell me what that red blob is underneath Yodas' fist, it looks like it may also have red ring around it.

Cheers
Bill

EDIT: Just added a repro, this time binned 2X to sacrifice resolution for smoothness, downside is small stars turn square.
Also reduced the saturation and darkened the shadows.

[DJScotty (Scott)]

That looks really nice Bill. Like the colours.

No idea what the red blob is. I am sure someone will know!

Cheers,

Scott

[atalas]

Nice shot Bill....what equipment did you use?

[Atmos (Colin)]

Really nice Bill! Lovely colours
Very jealous of your clear skies

[Shiraz (Ray)]

I agree, the colours are beautiful Bill. Nice work

[billdan (Bill)]

Thanks Scott, Louie, Colin and Ray.

Louie - My gear is a Skywatcher 200mm F5 Newt on an EQ6, guided with a Lodestar on an OAG, imaging with a QHY12 colour camera. Images stacked in AA5 and processed in Startools.

Colin - Yes, this week has been great for clear skies, the folks at Astrofest will be having a ball.

Cheers
Bill

[gregbradley]

A good image Bill. Nice detail and a nice field of view. The stars are overly yellow/red and are distracting though. I would tone them done a fair bit as they are unnatural.

The red object is a Herbig Haro object.

Greg.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Very fine, Bill. Particularly like the treatment of the reflection nebulosity, from brightest blue to just-glowing dust. Well done!

The red blob (if I'm seeing the right one) is the mushroom cap of a Herbig-Haro object.

Best,
M & T

[billdan (Bill)]

Thanks for the heads up on the HH objects Greg, M&T, I had to look them up in WIki to be honest

I have done a repro, this time binned 2X to sacrifice resolution for smoothness (downside is small stars turn square). I also reduced the saturation and darkened the shadows, Orange stars are still bright though.

Cheers
Bill

[spiezzy]

hi Bill that looks bloody Awsome I am about to have a go at Binning and see what I come up with but it looks like it paid off in you beautiful Image thanks for sharing
cheers Pete

[billdan (Bill)]

Thanks Pete,
Software binning is useful when the seeing is not that good.

My QHY12 camera has 1 arcsec/pixel resolution but if the atmospheric seeing resolution is at best 3 arcsecs then my camera resolution is wasted and the finest detail is now smeared across 3 pixels.
So I may as well apply software binning to the image, to help reduce noise and not lose any fine detail.

Cheers
Bill