Gas Amongst the Stars

[Paul Haese]

This image is part of a much longer project. My interests in imaging the dust out there is growing with each new image. Thanks Tom for the incentive.

The dust in this region is very fine and has lovely texture. This image is only around 5 hours of data and really needs at least double to remove the noise present. However, I don't recall anyone else presenting an image of this region at this image scale (think about the image scale here).

So where is this area? Without cheating check out the image and don't look at the text and try to guess where you have seen this before.

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Feel free to comment or critique

[atalas]

Nice Paul....don't think theirs many who wouldn't guess this area.

[Octane (Humayun)]

That's beautiful.

I'm also working on this region...

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[Paul Haese]

Yeah the blue and yellow is a bit of a give away really.

[wysiwyg (Mark)]

Striking Image Paul, well done!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice close-up.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Nice shot Paul. One of my favourite areas of the sky.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

That's a very nice image. I like the blue and golden areas as a contrast.

Greg.

[John Hothersall]

Dark nebula under imaged certainly, well known area but a bit different, subtle structures very nice.

John.

[Exfso (Peter)]

Wow, that is a superb image, well done Paul

[Ross G]

Wow Paul, an interstellar cyclone!

Looks amazing.

Thanks.

Ross.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Mate. Not much of a guessing game though. Must be implanted in every imagers mind.
Youve done well with it so far so the end result should be stunning. I just wonder at what point you will reach deminished returns for the hours on something like this. You can only put signal where there is signal to capture. Empty space will still be dark.
Good luck with it.

[richardo (Rich)]

Cool Paul, real cool!
If you're after dust, you're definitely in the right area

Yes, can't say I've seen anything as up in your face on this object before either, so great idea for a first!

Look forward to the finished version.
Rich

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Another wonderful image Paul, the QSI really seems to deliver. Very nicely processed as usual and the colours are just stunning. I'm sure that what little noise there is will go away once you collect more data. Thanks for sharing!