NGC3132 Starburst Nebula-close up

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Hi Guys

A 48 arc/sec planetary neb taken and proceesed with Pure Blonde influences, hence the random colour balance . The punks at NASA have modified the classic Hubble pallet since the latest upgrade, which makes vain emulation very difficult, I cant work out if its different filters or fancy fiddling in PS , very annoying.

Anyway. Starless (natch ) NGC3132 Starburst Nebula in Colour Mapped narrowband

HA:SII;OIII Mapped as RGB. Ha 2hrs, SII 80min, OIII 1hr. All 10min subs Bin1 Off axis guided with an SBIG AO8 (adaptive optics guider)operating at0.5 hz Taken on a 10"RCOS RC at f9 (2275mm FL), PME mount and ST10XME in urban skies .

[multiweb (Marc)]

Pfwoah! Speechless! Colours and details are sublime. You're giving Hubble a bad name mate
0.5Hz is what? Two corrections per second or one correction every two seconds?

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Hehe, thanks Marc, your fast positive reponse is very encauraging

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Nah, an ordinary 1 correction per 2 secs, which is the same as your average external guide in this case. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you dont.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Ah huh another Van postage der stamp haven masterpiece

Yeh, cool Fred.

I recon a green/yellow look may work too

Mike

[RobF (Rob)]

Pushing the boundaries and going where few tread once again Fred. And doing it extremely well as usual.

Love it when you show incredible detail in teeny weeny objects like this

[Jaybee (John)]

WOW

[jase (Jason)]

Ballsy Fred. I've got a similar data set which I'll process soon. I do like the details you've extracted. Top "extreme" work mate.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Fred, Such fine detail for such a tiny target.

[Lester]

Thanks for the wonderful view Fred.

All the best.

[h0ughy (David)]

LOL @ Mike. Stamps are now 55 cents Mike - showing your "era".

Fred - what a wonderful image, I am sure we will be seeing more of it soon as it is such a spectacular result - APOD would be a good spot

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Ah huh another Van postage der stamp haven masterpiece

Yeh, cool Fred.

I recon a green/yellow look may work too

Mike

Thanks Mike. Yeah, but I get caned for bright green, and it does look a bit odd .

Originally Posted by RobF

Pushing the boundaries and going where few tread once again Fred. And doing it extremely well as usual.

Love it when you show incredible detail in teeny weeny objects like this

Thanks Rob. The exposure time wasnt that long really to allow more detail, because of the limited time the object was in view for me, and for the 1st time I had to start imaging even before sunset , and blow me down, it worked well, with 3nm Ha.

Originally Posted by Jaybee

WOW

Hehe, glad you liked it John.

Originally Posted by jase

Ballsy Fred. I've got a similar data set which I'll process soon. I do like the details you've extracted. Top "extreme" work mate.

Nice to hear from you Jase . Id be very interested to see your effort done "properly", with some decent apature .

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very nice Fred, Such fine detail for such a tiny target.

Thanks Doug. Im lucky you guys understand the "relativity" of "fine detail" on tiny stuff .

Originally Posted by Lester

Thanks for the wonderful view Fred.

All the best.

Thanks Lester

Originally Posted by h0ughy

LOL @ Mike. Stamps are now 55 cents Mike - showing your "era".

Fred - what a wonderful image, I am sure we will be seeing more of it soon as it is such a spectacular result - APOD would be a good spot

Easy Dave, id be hard pressed to justify sending this to APOD after Hubbles latest effort, the difference is really far too huge in this case .

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Fred,

You're the king of PN.

Frank

[gregbradley]

That's a wonderful image Fred. I did not know we had such a nice PN like that in the Southern Skies. Tracking looks spot on too which is a challenge at your - what - 3.5 metres?

Greg.