New unknown object.

[xelasnave]

I am pretty sure this is a new discovery

I have yet to name it or advise anyone

So this is a product of finding an area and seeing what might be there...Somewhere around the LMC as I do explore around there a fair bit...this was probably the last thing I did before I found out about the cancer or at least started getting very sick.

Playing with high gain on the ZWO 1600 is so much fun... this stuff I thought to play with the subs and get more familiar with Startools..the reason was mainly that the subs looked black and I wanted to see what I could pull out..

For what ever reason my Ha acquired a slightly different size to the other processed images and Startools would not accept it in the Composite Tool.
..I cant think why the different size as I crop everything first and then saving each file and when they are all cropped I start with the first and go thru one by one..Startools looks at the earlier crop to set the frame ... I do it that way because I have had the program crash and it loses the crop details so I have to start over...mind you that was with the old Lappy but I think I will continue to do it that way...

So I only was able to use my Luminance, O11 and S11...although my Luminance was made up of everything including the Ha so I guess it got included that way...sort of..ok for art but not really what we should do...the composite came out to my eye colourless so I stuck it in the colour tool and dialed up the saturation way past where it should be but hey I am just mucking around and somehow I found it appealing and left it so bright..

I tried to do more in Photoshop but my dodge and burn tool flips between showing a circle of influence and little cross hairs ..why I do not know but it ticks me off because the little cross I just can not use effectively.

There was so much noise in this image even after Startools did its magic... I wanted to darken the background so I could hide it that way ..yes very naughty but I do like to save an image rather than throw it out...anyways even though I dont know what these objects are I do think they will make a serious target in the future as I find them very interesting...

Thanks for watching.


EDIT..gear..115mm triplet, ZWO 1600 mono..probably an EQ 6R mount, definetly unguided and gain 400 with one minute subs..maybe 2 hours of data..


alex

[Startrek (Martin)]

Alex,
Quite a nice image despite some issues you encountered
Do you have Stellarium ??
If not , thoroughly recommend using it for locating objects and since you have Skywatcher mounts you can use EQMOD ( free download) with Stellarium ( free download) to navigate from your laptop keyboard rather than use the handcontroller if you don’t want to stand up half the night.
I have the procedures for both to set it up at your location in Tabby
I found the objects in your image straight away
Central object is NGC 1955
Object to the north is NGC 2014
And the small round object is not named

This is like a game show challenge, quite a bit of fun !!
Thanks for posting

Cheers
Martin

[xelasnave]

I am away from the observatory and mounts.
So only one un named.
So rather than taking the glory I think we should call for suggestions from the members...you mean this...

Each object is very interesting so I cut the image up for closer inspection.
alex

I have Stellarium and a few others but I want a planetarium with the undiscovered objects on it.
alex

The purple is because that part is in the ultra violet wave length..ordinarily you cant see it
alex

[glend (Glen)]

The small round object next to NGC2014 is NGC2020.

NGC2020 is an Hii region surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-59 in the LMC.

It is in a couple of my Astrobin photos, I have sent you a link to an image.

It was taken with my Skywatcher MN190, and the ASI 1600MM-C., however it is a more traditional image approach with over 6 hours of data.

[Sunfish (Ray)]

That NGC 2020 is a cool blue object. Unique form.

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by Sunfish

That NGC 2020 is a cool blue object. Unique form.

It sure is...I think my colour is a little off
I have been looking at various images on the net and it is a fascinating object and certainly unmistakably blue.

When I get a chance, if the rain stops etc, I really want to have a serious go at this region.

Alex