This is NGC 6559, a star forming region located at a distance of about 5000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Sagittarius, showing both emission (red) and reflection (bluish) regions.
Total exposure time: 7.1 hours, captured over three nights from 6-8 July 2013 from Griffith NSW
Telescope: VC200L at f6.4
Camera: astro-modded Canon 1000D
Fantastic image, Richard! The colours have a real natural hue to them and you've done very well to bring out the rich golden colours of the star clouds. A tidy image indeed. Well done.
This was 106 x 4min subs at ISO1600. Captured using BackyardEOS and processed with PixInsight. Each sub was dithered.
There was very minor noise reduction applied using the TGVDenoise process in PixInsight, however noise is basically kept under control by the use of dithered subs (and lots of them).
That is good Richard!
Imaged 6559 last year, wasn't as good as yours.
I'll have to revisit, and get more data as you keep raising the bar for dslr imaging.
Lovely result Richard, that golden star in the lower right sets the field off beautifully. Might pay to have a squizz with the green turned down just a tad..? But a great shot
Lovely result Richard, that golden star in the lower right sets the field off beautifully. Might pay to have a squizz with the green turned down just a tad..? But a great shot
Mike
A reduced green version is attached. The original actually looks okay to me on my monitor; this one looks fine also, i guess its probably down to monitor settings.
Thanks Logan. I'm actually in the process of setting up a second wide-field rig with its own mount that I can operate in parallel to the main scope (my VC200L). So looking forward to doubling the image output on those nights of clear weather and good seeing !!
