The Rho Nebula

gregbradley · #1 17-04-2010, 05:03 PM

Part of the Rho Ophiuchi area. The Rho nebula shows part of the yellowish nebula surrounding Antares as well as some interesting hues.

AP140 with 155TCC, FLI Proline 16803, Baader filters.

LRGB 50 30 30 30.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/123678501/large

Greg.

multiweb (Marc) · #2 17-04-2010, 05:20 PM

Very smooth Greg. I've started a mosaic on this one but you got a lot more blues that what I'm getting. Will have to check my colors. I'll use that as a reference for the details. Top shot.

Lester · #3 17-04-2010, 06:23 PM

Beautiful image Greg.

TrevorW · #4 17-04-2010, 07:23 PM

Pretty colours

renormalised (Carl) · #5 17-04-2010, 11:28 PM

Beautiful shot, Greg...love the lavender and mauve hues in the shot

Tom Davis (Tom) · #6 18-04-2010, 11:11 AM

Very pretty Greg! Nice FOV with that setup.

Tom

Paul Haese · #7 18-04-2010, 02:29 PM

Very smooth image. Such an interesting area to image.

richardo (Rich) · #8 18-04-2010, 06:25 PM

Very nice Gregg,
one of my favourite areas.

I can never do it justice with my meager setups so I just enjoy you guys images of this with the go gear.

Thanks for sharing.

Rich

Hagar (Doug) · #9 19-04-2010, 08:49 AM

WOW greg that is smooth and I love the strong colours. It shows it off beautifully.

TrevorW · #10 19-04-2010, 10:46 PM

Greg how dim is the nebula I tried capturing the triple star system ic4604 the other night with my reducer attached but just over an hours data with the OSC shows very liitle of the blue nebula but plenty of saturation on the triple

gregbradley · #11 20-04-2010, 08:06 AM

Thanks for the compliments. Yes that little blue neb is dim.

This may be the start of a mosaic. I haven't done many mosaics but its probably time to conquer them. This AP scope and reducer/corrector is a great setup for that sort of image.

Greg.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #12 20-04-2010, 09:13 AM

Not bad Greg.

Love the square look now

Hard to know what size to display though for the best view huh?

Mike

gregbradley · #13 20-04-2010, 01:08 PM

Yes thanks Mike. I think I can do better with this one but I was somewhat happy with this one. I can see a redo and possibly a mosaic coming up. Of course that depends on the weather.

Greg.

duncan · #14 20-04-2010, 01:17 PM

Geez this is a beautiful Nebula. Love all the different shades of blue.
Excellent image.

Cheers,
Duncan