Still under a moon and heavy light pollution so we have here another narrowband image (sorry Doug, Marcus et al )
This time it is the Fighting Dragons in Ara (aka NGC 6188 & 6164)
I have always admired the look of the narrow band work by Emanuelle Colognato and Keith Quattrocchi and with that in my mind (no reference image was used during processing though - just memory) I came up with the following...
The seeing was better than the previous test image sessions, for at least some of the night and I managed to go pretty deep (6 hours) and get all the data in one night - exactly why I got this AG12!
the stars look a little bloaty (well not so much as bloat but very soft - not sharp and i know the seeing here has been real crud) but man what an impact - very noice Mr Sidonio. it almost - almost makes me wish i had a huge mono beasty like yours, but that would never replace the skills of the user AND PROCESSING.
I had no idea that the S nebula had a shock wave like that!
Love the image scale and the details. Particularly the expanding shell around the bi-polar nebula. I got only one in the Ha channel, the one that has a tint of brown in your pic. The others looked like they're mapped to blue does it mean ithe rest are more prominent in the Oiii channel?
After your introduction I was almost scared to have a look at this but how much damage can you do to this section of sky. I was pleasantly surprised, not as gnarly a colour scheme as I had expected.
Narrow band definitely lifts all the highlights and shadows beautifully and this image is no exception.
Lovely Mike..... detail, detail, detail. Great stuff.
I dont comment often but I have to on this. It really reminds me of a Don Goldman APOD from a few years ago. Dons was with a 24 inch RCOS from memory (and probably a ST11K - but I forget). I asked him at the AIC last year about the image and the best hint he gave me was that if I wasnt taking 30 minute subs in nb then I should be. Am I reading it right? 10 minute subs - says a lot about something doesnt it. To get that outer shell of 6164/5 in Ha in 10 min subs the way you have it is just great.
Yay! you like it ...never can tell sometimes with narrow band ...everything is an experiment
Thanks everyone who has commented
Marc: yes there outer shell is very strong in OIII so the combination of Ha and OIII completes the ring
Doug: Phew, you were one I hoped would like it...the other one is Marcus
Mark Bolton, 30min subs hey ...not even 10min mate, this was done with just 5min subs ..I have me a 12" Schmidt camera
..err?..yeh, I'll get my bio of to you pronto woops
5 mins - damn I hate you Mr Sid. I was happy with my gear. I am joking my wife would force me to soprano if I bought another scope. Then again I could p0ut up with a squeaky voice.
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...never can tell sometimes with narrow band
...everything is an experiment 
woops 
