Progress on NGC 602

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Well I hope it's progress. So far I've managed to get a fair bit of Ha (10 hours) and some OIII (4 hours). Conditions weren't that great for the OIII so it's a bit weaker than it should be. The faint outlying nebulosity is now showing some colour but I really need a lot more. Don Goldman's image of this area had 11 hours of Ha and OIII and that's a 20" F6.8.

Anyway here it is. I don't know how much further I'll go with it.

BTW Don calls this the flying lizard nebula. It's a name he thought up himself.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/N...L6303_RC14.htm

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

I had a last minute change of heart and posted my other version which I think looks better

Steve

[Flugel88 (Michael)]

Wow looks fantastic great to see something a little different.
Impressive detail for a small target.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Coming along nicely Steve and see what I mean about it looking a bit like Thors Helmet?

Hey, I think I can see Mike BJ's super bubble there too, can you see it in your OIII?

Mike

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Coming along nicely Steve and see what I mean about it looking a bit like Thors Helmet?

Hey, I think I can see Mike BJ's super bubble there too, can you see it in your OIII?

Mike

Thanks Mike. I can see a resemblance although they are different types of object. Not sure what you mean by "Mike BJ's super bubble" - my memory must be going.

Originally Posted by Flugel88

Wow looks fantastic great to see something a little different.
Impressive detail for a small target.

Thanks - although the transparency was often bad the seeing was usually pretty good.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Trish says: "Wow! What a difference."
Mike says: "Huge improvement. Very fine image. Looking lovely."

[Bassnut (Fred)]

OK, thats smooth yet detailed, well done. Its quite different to my effort, nebulosity flowing from the core is largely missing from yours, but the core is much better and very well processed. Excellent colour balance and the star field looks great. Did your curve it down a touch to highlight the noise free core?.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

OK, thats smooth yet detailed, well done. Its quite different to my effort, nebulosity flowing from the core is largely missing from yours, but the core is much better and very well processed. Excellent colour balance and the star field looks great. Did your curve it down a touch to highlight the noise free core?.

Thanks Fred. Yours looks great and mine might be better with a lot more OIII. I guess I mostly concentrated on the core and did do a lot of processing using shadow highlight and curves.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Trish says: "Wow! What a difference."
Mike says: "Huge improvement. Very fine image. Looking lovely."

Thanks guys. The first one was basically just a LRGB.

[gregbradley]

Looking very good Steve. You're now picking up the faint outer extensions which make the image.

Greg.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Looking very good Steve. You're now picking up the faint outer extensions which make the image.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. Still a long way to go though and the sky is rarely cooperating.

[LucasB (Lucas)]

Looking really nice Steve! The depth and colour are great.
Lucas

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by LucasB

Looking really nice Steve! The depth and colour are great.
Lucas

Thanks Lucas

[Paul Haese]

Nice colour saturation Steve. Well detailed too. I hope you keep going with it to what can be achieved.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Thanks Paul. Certainly plan to get more data when I'm back from NZ.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

that is quite beautiful Steve - lovely processing and fine detail.

[DJT (David)]

lovely Image, Steve. Watching as it develops further and you get more of the faint stuff out .

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by DJT

lovely Image, Steve. Watching as it develops further and you get more of the faint stuff out .

Originally Posted by Shiraz

that is quite beautiful Steve - lovely processing and fine detail.

Thanks guys. I've now returned from NZ so time to add more data.

[Ironbird (Terri)]

I applied a bit of magical enhancement to Stevec35's image and loaded it as a GIF showing a tone adjustment of 2 divisions between frames. Image and enhanced GIF all belong to Stevec35.

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