Astrofest NGC6164

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

This was going to be my main project for Astrofest this year so I spent quite a few nights gathering data. Unfortunately I had some issues with tracking/balance and then with colimation so the data wasn't quite what I was hoping for.

In any case here's almost 8 hours through the newt on this amazing target.

Full res version here:
http://astrob.in/52199/

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent result Peter, 8hrs huh? meah wasn't that only about 1/8 of the clear sky hours you had? (amazing). You can see the faint outer ring nicely...ah sigh problems in the field...not for me any more he he

Mike

[Garbz (Chris)]

Now that bubble has come through quite nicely. Your laptop screen really didn't do it justice last week.

[RickS (Rick)]

You went for some difficult targets, Peter. That outer bubble must be amazingly faint. Nice one!

[Ross G]

Great photo Peter.

You've captured so much detail.

Nice colours too.


Ross.

[cybereye (Mario)]

Peter,

I love the outer shell! Well captured...

Mario

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by cybereye

Peter,

I love the outer shell! Well captured...

Mario

+1, Yep what Mario said Pete !
Well done.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely image, Peter

[allan gould]

Great image Peter. Really nailed the faint outer regions and made an interesting photo.
Allan

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Great image Peter, was this only RGB or did you add in an Ha for the outer ring

[RobF (Rob)]

Nice one Peter. Would be interested if this includes an Ha too?

[h0ughy (David)]

great shot - well processed Peter. the shock wave detail and the neb are a treat

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Really impressive Pete.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Excellent result Peter, 8hrs huh? meah wasn't that only about 1/8 of the clear sky hours you had? (amazing). You can see the faint outer ring nicely...ah sigh problems in the field...not for me any more he he

Mike

Thought I had plenty of Ha and OIII to bring out the outer ring however it could have done with more. Unfortunately Pixinsight wasn't cooperating so couldn't run batch pre-processing script until I got home.

Originally Posted by Garbz

Now that bubble has come through quite nicely. Your laptop screen really didn't do it justice last week.

Yes Chris - ended up blending some Ha and OIII into the Luminosity to make that come out. I think originally I was just playing with the LRGB data.

Originally Posted by RickS

You went for some difficult targets, Peter. That outer bubble must be amazingly faint. Nice one!

Thanks Rick - I was determined to come back with some different images this year - for the last couple I've been redoing images I have from previous years. There is an amazing APOD of this object by Don Goldman that shows the extent of the bubble however it doesn't say how he imaged it - suspect a lot of Ha and OIII.

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great photo Peter.

You've captured so much detail.

Nice colours too.


Ross.

Cheers Ross.

Originally Posted by cybereye

Peter,

I love the outer shell! Well captured...

Mario

Thanks Mario - that's what I was hoping for.

Originally Posted by RB

+1, Yep what Mario said Pete !
Well done.

Cheers Andrew.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Lovely image, Peter

Thanks Larry.

Originally Posted by allan gould

Great image Peter. Really nailed the faint outer regions and made an interesting photo.
Allan

It's an interesting target - parts of it show up quite bright in the wider field images of NGC6188 however there is a lot more to this when you hit it with NB.

Originally Posted by ozstronomer

Great image Peter, was this only RGB or did you add in an Ha for the outer ring

Geoff - this had quite a lot of Ha and OIII (31x5mins of each). The LRGB was only around 6x5 mins of each.

Originally Posted by RobF

Nice one Peter. Would be interested if this includes an Ha too?

Yep - Greg Bond told me to give it heaps of Ha and OIII so I did!

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Really impressive Pete.

Thanks JJJ.