IC4601 in Scorpius - The Horse's Earring

[Ross G]

Hello,

It has been a lean year!

October and I have only managed 2 dark site visits all year.

This photo is from my trip to Coonabarabran in July. Four beautiful clear nights.

IC4601 in Scorpius.
It looks like an earring on the Blue Horse Head Nebula.

230 minutes total exposure comprising of 14 frames of 20 minute and 10 minute exposures.
Darks but no flats.

Televue NP101, 101mm, F5.4 Refractor.
QHY8L OSC CCD.
Skywatcher EQ6Pro Mount.
WO 66mm Guidescope.
QHY5-II Guide Camera.

Guiding with PHD2.
Capture with EZYCAP.
Processing with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CS2.

What do you think?

The photo is here http://smu.gs/1ssGX0K

Thanks for looking.

Ross.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Ross,

Definitely a gold ear-ring. Subtle wispy detail in the blue reflection nebula. Had a look around your web-site. Quite stunning! Your Comet Lemon complete with SMC, 47 Tucanae, and iconic Australian windmill was especially beautiful.

Very best,
Mike

[sjastro]

Very fine image Ross.
I like how you have captured the dust details.

Steven

[gregbradley]

Nice work Ross. It looks good.

Greg.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Nice work Ross

IC 4601 is quite a challenge.
Good to see you back imaging.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Nice dust Ross

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's dusty alright. Super deep! Very cool shot.

[IanP]

Nice image Ross. Good colour and field of view

[Octane (Humayun)]

Excellent image, Ross.

H

[lazjen (Chris)]

Very nice shot - like it!

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Really nice shot Ross, love all that dust.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Quite moody, somewhat ethereal and a even a little weird...makes for an intriguing image Ross and something different, tight stars too, nice work

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Very interesting shot, Ross. Nicely done!

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Excellent result Ross! Gotta love a dark site.

[Ross G]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Ross,

Definitely a gold ear-ring. Subtle wispy detail in the blue reflection nebula. Had a look around your web-site. Quite stunning! Your Comet Lemon complete with SMC, 47 Tucanae, and iconic Australian windmill was especially beautiful.

Very best,
Mike

Thank you Mike.

Glad you like the website as well. It has been slow work but hopefully I can organise all my photos ( astro and non astro) onto it.
At the moment I have tens of thousands of photos sitting on hard drives all over the place, never to be seen.

Ross.

[Ross G]

Originally Posted by sjastro

Very fine image Ross.
I like how you have captured the dust details.

Steven

Thanks Steven. The dust was an unexpected surprise.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice work Ross. It looks good.

Greg.

Thanks Greg.

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Nice work Ross

IC 4601 is quite a challenge.
Good to see you back imaging.

Cheers,

Justin.

Hi Justin,

Glad you like it.
It has been a while. This last year has zoomed by!

Thanks.

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Nice dust Ross

Thanks Geoff

[Ross G]

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's dusty alright. Super deep! Very cool shot.

Hi Marc,

Glad you like it.
The dark skies at Coona make such a difference.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by IanP

Nice image Ross. Good colour and field of view

Thanks Ian.

Originally Posted by Octane

Excellent image, Ross.

H

Glad you like it H. I haven't posted a photo for a while.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by lazjen

Very nice shot - like it!

Thank you Chris.

Originally Posted by AstroJason

Really nice shot Ross, love all that dust.

Thanks Jason.
I love photos with a lot of dust but I was not expecting it in this photo.
A nice surprise.

[Ross G]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Quite moody, somewhat ethereal and a even a little weird...makes for an intriguing image Ross and something different, tight stars too, nice work

Mike

Thank you Mike.
I love your description!
I haven't posted for a while so it's nice to get a good respone

Originally Posted by RickS

Very interesting shot, Ross. Nicely done!

Glad you like it Rick.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Rod771

Excellent result Ross! Gotta love a dark site.

Thank you Rod.
Yes, the dark skies at Coonabarabran make such a difference.
Even Ha photos show more detail.

[atalas]

Great dust work Ross!well done dude.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Lovely image Ross, I really like the overall natural looking you achieved, this is a fine image of the area indeed

Regards
Marco