Pickering's Triangle - added starless version (I'm a believer, Fred!)

[RickS (Rick)]

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/

Thanks,
Rick.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

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!.

[Paul Haese]

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.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's amazing!

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

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.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

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.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

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

Cheers,
Rick.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great shot Rick, coming along nicely.

[RickS (Rick)]

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.

[atalas]

Nice work Rick.

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Rick, Fantastic image, well done

Love the detail and colours look great to me

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Very nice Rick. Looking forward to seeing the whole mosaic.
Geoff

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks Louie and Geoff*2!

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Amazing Rick.
Depth, Detail, Nice stars and black background. A nice interpretation in processing.
Impressive.

[gregbradley]

Lovely. Jealous of your northern objects imaging ability!

Greg.

[astroron (Ron)]

Splendiferous Rick.
Cheers

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

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

Mike

[Tandum (Robin)]

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

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Regulus

Amazing Rick.
Depth, Detail, Nice stars and black background. A nice interpretation in processing.
Impressive.

Thanks, Trevor!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Lovely. Jealous of your northern objects imaging ability!

Greg.

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.

Originally Posted by astroron

Splendiferous Rick.
Cheers

Thanks, Ron!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

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

Mike

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

Originally Posted by Tandum

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...)

[DJT (David)]

Fantastic image Rick. Looking forward to seeing the full mosaic

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Looking really good Rick!

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks, David & Rod. Just added a starless version to my original post. I may regret it, but at present I really like it...