Barnard 86 ink blot in space

[tornado33]

Hi all
I didnt think the raw images I took of this were all that good, but upon processing found the final image was better then expected.
Its 3x 100 sec ISO 1600, with 10 inch F5.6 scope, uv/ir filter. MPCC.

A first for me, I used ABE to generate an artificial flat field, then used IRIS to divide that from the image, and amazingly it got rid of all the gradient and vignetting. Ive been hearing of others here using it so thought Id give it a try. If it works on future images as well, I may never take a flat field again!
Its here http://pleiades-astrophoto.com/pixin...abe/index.html
and is free. I just used it at default, using its generated model as the flat field.

Larger version of my image here
http://scottalder.fotopic.net/p29127917.html

B86 has always fascinated me, an inkblot in space is what it looks like, with a pretty open cluster thrown in for value.

Scott

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Scott.

Awesome.

[h0ughy (David)]

isnt it cloudy tonight, when did you take this Scott? Awesome!!!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

"... it's full of stars"

You are pumping out some corkers with that Canon Scott!

Mike

[tornado33]

thanks
I actually took the images last week, but only processed it tonight. If I can I might get out under the full moon with the hydrogen alpha filter this saturday night.
Scott

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

That is certainly a rich star field !
A great Shot !

[Dennis]

Wow – you really need to look at this full size to see the incredible detail. Fantastic image Scott.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman (Mike)]

Incredible.

PixInsight is a great program, very powerful but hard to use sometimes. If you can master it, I think it'd be great.

[Lester]

Great one Scott,

Thanks for the link to the back ground extractor.

[astroboy]

Cool image Scott
I'll try that program too.
Really nice object to view too . first and best view I can remember was with Mark Suchtings 8" binos years ago at SPSP.
Sad thing about first impressions ... you only get one

Zane