[AstroFest] Barnard begins with E?

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Folks,

This is an interesting region around Tarazed in Aquila, a bunch of dark nebulae and I was set onto a couple of them by MortonH - thanks Morton

I only ended up with an hour of data on this one, and the colour balance is really tricky...suggestions welcome it's almost as if I had a red torch shining down the scope

Without further ado, Tarazed with Barnard dark nebulae 142 and 143.

Cheers,
Dunk

[multiweb (Marc)]

Love those dark nebulae. Nice one. Where's this one? Far from the snake?

Did a bit of correction with a mask in PS and Gradient X. Works well in PS. I'm sure Rick has a better method in PixInsight

[atalas]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Love those dark nebulae. Nice one. Where's this one? Far from the snake?

Yeah me toogood work.

[MortonH]

Wow - that's interesting. Visually I see a capital E but in your image I see a curling seahorse holding a clamp.

[Atmos (Colin)]

T'is a nice region Dunk, so many stars, almost like sand in the background

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Love those dark nebulae. Nice one. Where's this one? Far from the snake?

Did a bit of correction with a mask in PS and Gradient X. Works well in PS. I'm sure Rick has a better method in PixInsight

Thanks Marc, on both counts I'll have to give it a go in PS, although PI would be my preferred. Rick, are you there? Sorry I missed your advanced PI last Saturday

The dark stuff starts about 1 degree north of Tarazed (gamma Aquilae), more towards the Milky Way.

Originally Posted by atalas

Yeah me toogood work.

Thanks Louie!

Originally Posted by MortonH

Wow - that's interesting. Visually I see a capital E but in your image I see a curling seahorse holding a clamp.

Thanks Morton! The eye sees what the eyes see.

Originally Posted by Atmos

T'is a nice region Dunk, so many stars, almost like sand in the background

Thanks Colin, yeah all those grains of sand make it a nightmare to process

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

I'll have to give it a go in PS, although PI would be my preferred. Rick, are you there? Sorry I missed your advanced PI last Saturday

That looks pretty good, Dunk, but you did miss the session where I explained how to set all the PI knobs to eleven

If you like, I'd be happy to have a go at your raw integrations with PI and post the result and notes on what I did. Probably can't do it for a week or two though due to work commitments (grumble grumble...)

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Thanks Rick! Yeah I had to choose between understanding the meaning of life, the universe and everything or eternal bliss with PI

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Very nice Dunk - interesting object selection. Always love seeing these objects stand out against such a rich field of stars.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Thanks Pete! I guess they only really stand out against the star field, makes me wonder how much more dust is out there