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Old 01-08-2014, 09:11 PM
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Pickering's Triangle - added starless version (I'm a believer, Fred!)

Starting to get some OIII data for my Veil Nebula mosaic. Here's a crop of one pane containing "Pickering's Triangle." Approximately 8 hours of Ha and 8 hours of OIII with a Tak FSQ-106ED scope and QSI683 camera.

First attempt at processing this and I'm not entirely happy with it so I'd appreciate constructive criticism as always...

Higher res version here: http://www.astrobin.com/110656/0/

Added a starless version which I like a lot more. High res: http://www.astrobin.com/full/111040/B/

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Old 01-08-2014, 09:23 PM
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Gaud, thats just stunning!!!!. Having said that, this singular object, bar none, can with effort be rendered to appear absolutely razor sharp. This is damb close though, top effort!.
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Old 01-08-2014, 10:29 PM
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Lovely piece of work Rick. The colours are really nice and the detail is very good. Lots of data too.

With the QSI are you using a reducer or is this at f5? Sorry if you have told me this before but I have forgotten.
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Old 01-08-2014, 10:59 PM
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Old 01-08-2014, 11:24 PM
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Gaud, thats just stunning!!!!. Having said that, this singular object, bar none, can with effort be rendered to appear absolutely razor sharp. This is damb close though, top effort!.
Thanks, Fred. I didn't blink through the subs yet and reject the worst ones. Hopefully I can squeeze a littlle more sharpness out of it.

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Lovely piece of work Rick. The colours are really nice and the detail is very good. Lots of data too.

With the QSI are you using a reducer or is this at f5? Sorry if you have told me this before but I have forgotten.
Ta, Paul. Just native f/5.

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That's amazing!
Thanks, Kevin. It's the object that's amazing but I'll take a small amount of credit for not destroying it with my processing

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Great shot Rick, coming along nicely.
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Old 02-08-2014, 08:09 AM
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Thanks, Marc. I'm not entirely happy with the stars and the background so more work needed. If I can get it right on one panel I'll be in good shape when I finally have data for the whole mosaic.
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Nice work Rick.
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Rick, Fantastic image, well done

Love the detail and colours look great to me
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Very nice Rick. Looking forward to seeing the whole mosaic.
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Old 02-08-2014, 04:20 PM
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Thanks Louie and Geoff*2!
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Amazing Rick.
Depth, Detail, Nice stars and black background. A nice interpretation in processing.
Impressive.
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Lovely. Jealous of your northern objects imaging ability!

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Splendiferous Rick.
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Oh, riiiight, the Veil Nebula... I thought I was looking at a nerve cell under a microscope Amazing area that both in terms of what it looks like and what it actually is

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I see a bit of blue tinge over all the stars in the hi res version rick. Might b my monitor.

I had a flick through my veil images and the stars do have colours so your in for the long haul here mate
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Amazing Rick.
Depth, Detail, Nice stars and black background. A nice interpretation in processing.
Impressive.
Thanks, Trevor!

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Lovely. Jealous of your northern objects imaging ability!

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Ta, Greg. It's nice to have some new objects and an abundance of data. It's processing time that I'm short on now.

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Splendiferous Rick.
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Oh, riiiight, the Veil Nebula... I thought I was looking at a nerve cell under a microscope Amazing area that both in terms of what it looks like and what it actually is

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Thanks, Mike. It's an amazing object all right!

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I see a bit of blue tinge over all the stars in the hi res version rick. Might b my monitor.

I had a flick through my veil images and the stars do have colours so your in for the long haul here mate
Thanks for looking, Robin. Might try a starless version for my next experiment (and then attempt some tone mapping...)
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Fantastic image Rick. Looking forward to seeing the full mosaic
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Looking really good Rick!
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Thanks, David & Rod. Just added a starless version to my original post. I may regret it, but at present I really like it...
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