The Smoking Sword

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well the weather gods smilled on me and after 4 months on the imaging wagon ....I had a perfectly clear still night here in Newcastle with reasonable seeing THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So YEP! not a repro, not a hybrid image...this is an all new image

Anyway, I did several hours Ha and OIII on Orion's Sword with the intention of compiling a new way-out there version ...but I also collected 10min each or RGB (5 X 2min) just for the stars....I was so surprised at the amount of nebula obtained in just 10min each of RGB under atrocious light pollution that I thought I'd post it

The Smoking Sword

The power of aperture and speeeeed

here is a deeper Hybrid HaOIIIRGB in true colour Smoking Orions Sword

Mike

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Hey Mike ..... happy to be the first on comment your post:

FANTASTIC ten minute .. congratulations .. incredible fast achievement !!
I'll wait for the next steps ...

Leo

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Gee, don't think I've seen an image of this before Mike, nice cHange

Lots of depth there for 10min subs and the conditions, bodes well.

[sheeny (Al)]

Wow! That's deep for 10mins per channel.

Al.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Cool huh guys? it was the speed of data capture that turned me to the F3.8 AG12 - even last night I didn't have enough time to get everything that I wanted but as you can see even a few minutes with 12" at F3.8 sucks it in

Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Gee, don't think I've seen an image of this before Mike, nice cHange

Lots of depth there for 10min subs and the conditions, bodes well.

Only 2min subs actually, 5 each for RG&B

[astronobob (Bob)]

Unreal result for 10min, Processing looks dam fine also Mike. champion stuff !

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

loves m42

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Fantastic Mike, that's a serious signal for such short exposures! Very impressive, now your scope is all ready to rock

[gregbradley]

Gee whiz that is amazing for only 30 minutes. I thought I was missing something when I read 10:10:10. Holy cow. Imagine what 3 hours would look like.

It all looks fantastic.

Welcome back to imaging Mike.

Greg.

[Ross G]

An amazing photo Mike.

Who needs dark skies or an observatory...!!


Thanks.

Ross.

[atalas]

Half hour?damn that's good! you must be dying to go deep...looking forward to the NB work Mike.

[John Hothersall]

Can't imagine what the deep one will be like, I think you and the scope make great music.

John.

[TrevorW]

Not M42 again this is getting as bad as M8

actually quite nice big fella for such a small data packet

[h0ughy (David)]

well done Mike - did you have time to take in the venus moon conjunction? Its an awesome image Mike - the final result will be a vista indeed

[cventer]

Sensational Mike. Detail is fantastic.

How are you guiding that ? OAG ? Or separate guider ?

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Worth the wait and investment when it all come together like that!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Pure magic.

I await the masterpiece.

H

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Impressive to say the least Mike! Nice to see some new stuff from you.

Cheers

Steve

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well I tried combining the OIII and Ha into a bi colour narrowband image ala Marco Lorenzi but try as I might I couldn't get anything I liked might try again another day if I get some SII...

So...instead, I combined the 1hr of Ha and 1hr of OIII into a luminace layer and compiled a hybrid true colour LRGB instead

Here it is

Smoking Orion's Sword

Not exactly what I had imagined I was going to do with the data but I hope you like it none the less

Mike