Well it is a great nebula and its in orion ! This has been my labour of love for the past few months, I have managed to aquire 24 hours of data that I will be continually adding too over the coming months. This is 8 nights of data, and probably 12 nights of setup .
I plan to finish with as much HA as I can, and as much colour as I can fit into new moon nights.
I found this in a wide field image of orion and thought that it would look cool as a stand alone image. At the time I hadn't seen any images of it, and I had no idea what it was cataloged as. I eventually found a number LDN1622. It is very faint, noise is still apparent in 18 hours of HA subs. Dvj posted in his horse head image that he might be imaging this with his AP RHA and I look forward to what that presents like.
Wow, that was my next target with the RHA. Well done! This is a very faint object.
jg
I saw your post in the horse head thread thismorning and thought I should post my effort . I look forward to seeing it with the RHA, im sure you will get rid of the noise before my puny scope will.
Congrats on your persistence, Peter, and a nice result. Look forward to the end result. I have this on my list of targets in Astroplanner as the "Boogey Man" nebula
Congrats on your persistence, Peter, and a nice result. Look forward to the end result. I have this on my list of targets in Astroplanner as the "Boogey Man" nebula
Yes, John refered to it as the "goblin nebula" in the other thread, but I had seen it as the "boogey man" too.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
That's very cool Peter. What scope did you use for this? Do you have the RA/DEC for this object?
I am exclusively using my 6 inch f5 newt for imaging now. Just trying to get SGP working with all my gear.
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Originally Posted by Leonardo70
My next target too, very nice .. thjis is a difficult target.
All the best,
Leo
Thanks Leo, it is faint so lots of time and lots of noise.
I imaged this a while ago in a 4 panel Orion Mosaic. Its down below M78 right?
I liked the look of it back then. A good choice of target. It didn't seem that dim in the FSQ106 shot at the time but thats F5.
Greg.
Yes I have seen the same region in your shot, it is on the other side from barnards loop from m78. My shot is at f5 too but I assume you used a stl11000m for that mosaic? My image scale is 1.47 arc seconds per pixel compaired with 3.5 with the STL.
Intrigued by the lack of M42 in the preview image and glad I clicked as I love these less imaged objects and it has come out well, the shape is very detailed with good contrast.
Intrigued by the lack of M42 in the preview image and glad I clicked as I love these less imaged objects and it has come out well, the shape is very detailed with good contrast.
John.
Hehe, Im sneaky like that. I hope to create more contrast in the final version, but the more I stretch out of it the more noise appears!
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Originally Posted by LewisM
Beautiful! I love the road less travelled.
Thankyou Lewis, I agree shooting lesser known objects is great!'
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Originally Posted by rcheshire
That is so very different and in an odd way, beautiful - a fine image to boot.
I agree, I especially like the small brown reflections coming off the bright star at the center of the cloud, something I really hope to capture with some colour data!
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Originally Posted by alpal
It is a great image.
I ran it through AstroTortilla to get the RA & DEC:
Thanks! Ahh I forgot to post the Ra and Dec, thanks for that too!
Great object and well composed frame, Peter. Looks like an eagle to me with outstretched wings. How about the "dark eagle"? ...or "the not so great Orion nebula"? Looking forward to the colour version.
Good trick Peter, you made me look twice. Nice job, looks great.
Steve
Thanks Steve
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Nice Pete, really like how the data is coming along for you. Great stuff.
Thanks Paul, with a bit of luck the weather will be nice to us next new moon and I can add some colour to this.
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Originally Posted by Rigel003
Great object and well composed frame, Peter. Looks like an eagle to me with outstretched wings. How about the "dark eagle"? ...or "the not so great Orion nebula"? Looking forward to the colour version.
With a bit of luck you will be free for the colour session so you can watch it in real time!
The great orion nebula
! This has been my labour of love for the past few months, I have managed to aquire 24 hours of data that I will be continually adding too over the coming months. This is 8 nights of data, and probably 12 nights of setup 
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. I look forward to seeing it with the RHA, im sure you will get rid of the noise before my puny scope will.
What scope did you use for this? Do you have the RA/DEC for this object?
