Southern Tadpoles and ngc3572

Nikolas (Nik) · #1 28-03-2022, 09:42 PM

This one seems overlooked but I decided to capture this Saturday night despite the smoke haze and poor guiding.
5 hours of 10 minute exposure L-Extreme Fake HSO process.
Astrobin version here

gregbradley · #2 28-03-2022, 10:46 PM

Wow, that is sensational. I don't think I have seen this one before.

Greg.

Nikolas (Nik) · #3 28-03-2022, 11:23 PM

Thanks Greg

I stumbled on it by accident when looking for a unique target It's just above the Statue of Liberty

Dave882 (David) · #4 28-03-2022, 11:33 PM

Beautiful! Great find!!

Ryderscope (Rodney) · #5 29-03-2022, 10:30 AM

That's wonderful Nik. Nice unique object and very well presented

Startrek (Martin) · #6 29-03-2022, 10:54 AM

Nik,
Great find and nice capture of a very faint neb with some unusual structures
Just pulled it up on Stellarium, it’s about halfway between the Wishing Well cluster NGC 3532 and the Statue of Liberty neb ( Stellarium has it named as just a star cluster NGC3572 )
Well done considering smoke haze etc.....
Martin

Peter Ward · #7 29-03-2022, 11:03 AM

A most excellent find. Thanks for posting.

Nikolas (Nik) · #8 29-03-2022, 11:36 AM

Thanks everyone
It doesn't seem to have its own designation as such, though the star cluster does. This is the only real info I found about this object

Andy01 (Andy) · #9 29-03-2022, 02:02 PM

Looks good Nick!

There's more info on this nebula here on this APOD version.

JA · #10 29-03-2022, 02:33 PM

It's wonderful Nik- Well Done. The dense gas objects towards the top (buk / globules /tadpoles? whatever) are really special.

Best
JA

Bassnut (Fred) · #11 29-03-2022, 05:03 PM

That is excellent, just amazing !. Detail, colour, composition, so good.

matlud (Mathew) · #12 29-03-2022, 05:20 PM

That’s really great Nik -a fascinating object and great composition 👍👍👍

Kuz · #13 29-03-2022, 05:36 PM

Superb image Nik . I to had never seen this nebula as well. Those tadpoles are just something else. Perfect framing as well . I have just swapped my 294 mc pro back onto the esprit 120. So i will definitely be give this one a go

Nikolas (Nik) · #14 29-03-2022, 05:40 PM

I'm not sure why the multi quote isnt working so I can't reply individually. So thanks for the comments everyone.
Andy your APOD image is wonderful, love the colour palette I wish I had the funds to go mono but time and money are a huge factor.
It never fails to impress me how much we can achieve from a smoke encrusted Metropolitan area with Light pollution etc and more or less amateur yet expensive equipment (for me). Wonderful image Andy

Nikolas (Nik) · #15 29-03-2022, 05:41 PM

Kuz make sure you just use a flattener I used my ricardi 0.75 reducer and next time I'll aim for just the flattener on my scope to get some finer details in the tadpoles. Not sure when we will have a next clear night.