[AstroFest] Long live the dusty neb!

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Folks,

'Tis the season...for imaging around Coronae Australis...but this one sans the influence of the green monster

Most of these subs were taken on the first night of AstroFest, but then I realised that with the dropping temperature I'd shifted out of focus so then I took some additional subs the next night.

Composed of 27x 5m subs with my SW Esprit 100 and Canon 6D, processed with PixInsight, and then butchered down to 200kb so I included a crop around the reflection nebulae and glob.

Later in the week I took some wider subs with just my Canon and that dark dust lane heading up the frame extends for quite a distance

Cheers,
Dunk

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Glorious colours and so silky smooth!!

[MortonH]

Very nice. Now where are your images of B142 & 143?

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Glorious colours and so silky smooth!!

Thanks JJJ! The reduction/jpeg compression has made it look a lot smoother than it really is

Originally Posted by MortonH

Very nice. Now where are your images of B142 & 143?

Thanks Morton...please standby while I try to connect you

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Lovely result Dunk, such a beautiful area, hard to take a bad one really

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Beautiful wide field Dunk. Working on a mosaic on that one atm from astrofest as well but I can't vouch for the green monster.

... to be continued ...

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Lovely result Dunk, such a beautiful area, hard to take a bad one really

Thanks Mike!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Beautiful wide field Dunk. Working on a mosaic on that one atm from astrofest as well but I can't vouch for the green monster.

Thanks Marc! Look forward to your mosaic, monster or otherwise

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

one of faves and a real treat - beautiful!

[atalas]

Wonderful shot

[gregbradley]

Very nice. Always a wonderful area.

Greg.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

That's really nice, Dunk, made even more impressive by the fact that it was taken with a dSLR and not a cooled astro cam.

[lazjen (Chris)]

Nice images. I like these - they're like someone going wild with the smudge tool in PS.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Thanks Graham, Louie, Greg, Lee and Chris

The 6.5 micron pixels of the 6D seem to do a pretty good job, despite the resolution being a bit shocking if you calculate it... almost 2.5" / pixel!

[RickS (Rick)]

That's a great result, Dunk!

You should be drizzling at 2.5"/pixel. Everything takes 4 times as long to process

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Thanks Rick! I'll give drizzling a try if I have enough memory