My attempt at the Cone and Foxfur neb

[Garyh]

Hi,
Well after seeing the other week that this area was very popular I decided for things to cool down a little before I show yet another version of this wonderful but fairly faint area..
Image is a composite of 2-1/2hrs of Ha and 3 hrs of color with the 8" newt and cooled 40D. Still could have done with much more HA as still was a little noisey but it sure helped bring out the Ha better. The camera performed nicely at around 6-7c over the two nights with 5 min subs.
Ha was blended into the red channel as well used as a luminance channel. Also used the Ha as a mask to bring out the highlights although I lost some of the dimmer regions. More concerned at keeping the noise down as we know one has to push this one quiet abit ex us DSLR users.

Link to 750kb version reduced to 50% full size.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads...cone-hargb.jpg


Comments most welcome.
cheers Gary

[TrevorW]

Gary it looks a little bit over sharpened to me but good effort nonetheless

[Octane (Humayun)]

Gary,

'tis beautiful.

H

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Gary that's a fine image , well framed and the stars look great...not sure why Trevor would say it is over sharpened ....or have you uploaded a newer version since that comment..?

Mike

[Dennis79 (Keith)]

Is it just me of does all the red look like a big fish?

[TrevorW]

I don't know if over sharpened or curves have been stretched to much which causes some star bloating I usually get similar star shapes where the diffraction spikes have been stunted by doing this.

[AlexN]

Looks beautiful to me...

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Nice work on a dim object!

[Ken]

Very nice the stars look sharp with plenty of colour vatiation, your scope and mount are working well.
Clear skies Ken.

[Garyh]

Thanks guys,

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Gary it looks a little bit over sharpened to me but good effort nonetheless

Trevor, only very minor sharpening has been applied. Some of the very brightest stars are bloated but that`s hard to control when the image is really stretched to the max. If I try to minimize this they end up looking strange.

Originally Posted by Octane

Gary,

'tis beautiful.

H

Well thankyou Mr H man!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Gary that's a fine image , well framed and the stars look great...not sure why Trevor would say it is over sharpened ....or have you uploaded a newer version since that comment..?

Mike

Thanks Mike! no changes to the file..I`m quiet happy with the result. The stars maybe a little off shape and the color is not so great due to the Ha but I`m happy
cheers Mike!

Originally Posted by Dennis79

Is it just me of does all the red look like a big fish?

Not wrong Kieth! it does look like a fish this way!
thanks for looking

Originally Posted by AlexN

Looks beautiful to me...

Thanks Alex

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Nice work on a dim object!

cheers , it`s a challenging object for a DSLR for sure, I will have to do it again next year with much more Ha

Originally Posted by Ken

Very nice the stars look sharp with plenty of colour vatiation, your scope and mount are working well.
Clear skies Ken.

Thanks Ken, had some tracking issues but getting there! Always fun when you have a new toy to play with..
Thanks for looking!

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

I reckon it looks great.

Frank

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

now that, is the berries

[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by Dennis79

Is it just me of does all the red look like a big fish?

Yes - I think we should campaign to get this one renamed the "Giant pink wrasse nibbling on coral" nebula...

Beautiful work Gary. I have no experience on this one, but understand its no push over at all to get it looking as smooth as you have here. You must be happy.

[spearo (Frank)]

wow
talk about sharp and fine
great shot
well done
frank

[RB (Andrew)]

Beautiful, just beautiful Gary !!
And so you should be very happy with it mate.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Such an interesting object, and what excellent composition.

Thank you so much for posting.

Cheers Petra d.

[Paul Haese]

Nice image for a target that is quite dim. Green looks like it is down in the image but everything else looks great.

[Garyh]

Thanks Frank, Duncan, Rob, Frank, Andrew, Petra and Paul.
Yes not a easy one to image but I always wanted a nice image of this.
Till next year
Thanks for the comments

[TheDecepticon]

That is pretty good, for sure. Top effort.