Half chicken and chips

RickS (Rick) · #1 28-04-2018, 07:34 PM

A partial Running Chicken and nuggets. I lied about the chips...

Captured at Yass, Australia 5-24 April, 2018 (Martin Pugh's lovely gear.)

Scope: Planewave CDK17 @ f/6.8 = 2939mm FL
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STXL-11002/AOX
Filters: Astrodon LRGB gen II, 3nm NB
Image scale: 0.63 arcsec/pixel (drizzled up)
Exposures: 14x1800s Ha, 14x1800s Oiii, 14x1800s Sii (21 hours)

Larger version on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/344188/?nc=user

Hope you like it. May be too colourful for folks with subtle tastes

multiweb (Marc) · #2 28-04-2018, 08:01 PM

Finger licking good.

RickS (Rick) · #3 28-04-2018, 08:05 PM

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Finger licking good.

Like frogs legs? Thanks, Marc

peter_4059 (Peter) · #4 28-04-2018, 08:11 PM

Looks like an angry ginger cat wrapped up in blue wool. Nicely processed, Rick.

RickS (Rick) · #5 28-04-2018, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by peter_4059

Looks like an angry ginger cat wrapped up in blue wool. Nicely processed, Rick.

Thanks, Peter! That description creates some interesting mental images

Stevec35 (Steve) · #6 28-04-2018, 08:49 PM

Looks brilliant Rick!

Steve

RickS (Rick) · #7 28-04-2018, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Stevec35

Looks brilliant Rick!

Thanks, Steve!

atalas · #8 28-04-2018, 09:22 PM

RickS (Rick) · #9 28-04-2018, 09:23 PM

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Thanks, Louie!

Ryderscope (Rodney) · #10 28-04-2018, 09:50 PM

Fantastic. I see the eye of Sauron swallowing an angry cat.

gregbradley · #11 28-04-2018, 11:45 PM

Wow Rick, you make such vibrant images. Trademark excellent processing and a striking interesting image.

Greg.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #12 28-04-2018, 11:49 PM

It's very beautiful. I don't usually like the look of narrow band but this is quite spectacular.

Placidus (Mike and Trish) · #13 29-04-2018, 12:14 AM

Absolutely stunning. Beautiful contrast.

willik (Willik) · #14 29-04-2018, 12:58 AM

Its out of this world Rick beauty
Martin

JA · #15 29-04-2018, 02:08 AM

Great Job Rick.I love the colours and especially the almost iridescent blues/green.

Best
JA

RickS (Rick) · #16 29-04-2018, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Fantastic. I see the eye of Sauron swallowing an angry cat.

Thanks, Rodney. Even better

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Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wow Rick, you make such vibrant images. Trademark excellent processing and a striking interesting image.

Thanks, Greg!

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Originally Posted by cometcatcher

It's very beautiful. I don't usually like the look of narrow band but this is quite spectacular.

Thanks, Kevin. I think this is one of those objects that has a nice balance of the NB wavelengths.

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Originally Posted by Placidus

Absolutely stunning. Beautiful contrast.

Thanks, M&T!

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Originally Posted by willik

Its out of this world Rick beauty

Thanks, Martin.

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Originally Posted by JA

Great Job Rick.I love the colours and especially the almost iridescent blues/green.

Thanks, JA! I resisted the temptation to eliminate the green and go for the more conventional gold/turquoise look. GTL has impact but loses a lot of the subtle colours.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #17 29-04-2018, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by multiweb

Finger licking good.

and just enough Dijon.

LewisM · #18 29-04-2018, 09:43 AM

Can I have that with a side of coleslaw and potato and gravy please?

I take back - temporarily - any comments in regards to the effluence of whales

RickS (Rick) · #19 29-04-2018, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by peter_4059

and just enough Dijon.

That's not helping with my intermittent fast this morning, Peter

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Originally Posted by LewisM

Can I have that with a side of coleslaw and potato and gravy please?

I take back - temporarily - any comments in regards to the effluence of whales

That's a lot to swallow, Lewis

Atmos (Colin) · #20 29-04-2018, 02:22 PM

Martin is pumping out some seriously nice data!
I've been playing around with a HaRGB version of this for a while and it definitely lends itself to narrowband over RGB. There are a lot of detailed areas that just appear washed out in the RGB version.

Nicely processed Rick