IC 5148 The Cosmic Atom - with ultra faint outer OIII halo

[Atmos (Colin)]

That's an amazing job, for such a small target you have managed to capture a considerable amount of detail in there

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Geez Mike, thats very nice indeed. Ive had a poke at this and couldnt touch the outer halo, hopelessly dim. Masterfull processing too, excellent detail. Im guessing your spending a fair bit of time on processing including serious upscaleing which is working very well. Youve upped effort lately IMO, right out of the the easy top 10. Nice to see, impressive.

[topheart]

Hi Mike,

You sure are popping out planetaries - like shelling peas!

I absolutely love your rendition of this one. I say - move over Don Goldman!

A perfect job!

Keep em coming!

Thanks,
Tim

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Superb Mike. The inner bright neb has some amazing detail for a small target. Looks a lot like an eye

[DJT (David)]

Dang, that's beautiful. Keep these odd little PNs coming.

[h0ughy (David)]

wow,

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Another corker Mike! Amazingly enough I was just told about this object few days ago, a planetary nebula that is known since 1894 but no halo was found in a professional search in 1998. It seems Martin Pugh was the first one to first discover hints of a possible halo in 2012 (http://asterisk.apod.com/download/fi...8608&mode=view) even if it was few months later in 2013 that Don Goldman confirmed the presence of the halo and showed it clearly: http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ic-5148-with-halo/
At the end a great story of what determined amateurs with a good equipment can achieve!
Great shot!
Clear skies
Marco

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Wow, stunning Mike. Perfect simplicity of presentation.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by marco

Another corker Mike! Amazingly enough I was just told about this object few days ago, a planetary nebula that is known since 1894 but no halo was found in a professional search in 1998. It seems Martin Pugh was the first one to first discover hints of a possible halo in 2012 (http://asterisk.apod.com/download/fi...8608&mode=view) even if it was few months later in 2013 that Don Goldman confirmed the presence of the halo and showed it clearly: http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ic-5148-with-halo/
At the end a great story of what determined amateurs with a good equipment can achieve!
Great shot!
Clear skies
Marco

Thanks Marco, yes I saw those two images and used then for inspiration, Martin's I had a look at before the fact and thought I had achieved a great result, Don's I didn't see until after I was almost finished processing...his is amazing! So I was happy with my result overall Driving back and forth to my observatory which isn't automated and hammering an object for three nights is a lot of fun (well...? ) when the results are good

Originally Posted by SimmoW

Wow, stunning Mike. Perfect simplicity of presentation.

Thanks a lot Simon

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

wow,

Ahhhhh... emoticons are our friends

[RB (Andrew)]

Mike that is Stunning !!!!
I keep coming back to this thread to have another look.
Had to just say how much I enjoy viewing it.

Thank you for sharing.

RB

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

That's an amazing job, for such a small target you have managed to capture a considerable amount of detail in there

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Geez Mike, thats very nice indeed. Ive had a poke at this and couldnt touch the outer halo, hopelessly dim. Masterfull processing too, excellent detail. Im guessing your spending a fair bit of time on processing including serious upscaleing which is working very well. Youve upped effort lately IMO, right out of the the easy top 10. Nice to see, impressive.

Originally Posted by topheart

Hi Mike,

You sure are popping out planetaries - like shelling peas!

I absolutely love your rendition of this one. I say - move over Don Goldman!

A perfect job!

Keep em coming!

Thanks,
Tim

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Superb Mike. The inner bright neb has some amazing detail for a small target. Looks a lot like an eye

Originally Posted by DJT

Dang, that's beautiful. Keep these odd little PNs coming.

Originally Posted by RB

Mike that is Stunning !!!!
I keep coming back to this thread to have another look.
Had to just say how much I enjoy viewing it.

Thank you for sharing.

RB

Thanks for the nice feedback guys! she is a wee little beauty huh?

Fred, no up scaling here and this is an 80% of full res crop too (sorry Marcus, just think it looks best at this display size ) with no dark frames used either! The AG12 + SXV694 gives a very useable image scale of 0.84"/pix so the 12" aperture and good sensitivity of the SX694 are quite formidable for a relatively small package ...the wide field scope who would be a long focal length RC

Mike

[Octane (Humayun)]

Sensational, Mike. So clean, too.

H

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Stunning detail for such a tiny critter Mike. And smoooth.
Geoff

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Wonderful result . Great target.

All the best,
Leo

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Sensational, Mike. So clean, too.

H

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Stunning detail for such a tiny critter Mike. And smoooth.
Geoff

Originally Posted by Leonardo70

Wonderful result . Great target.

All the best,
Leo

Cheers H, G and L glad you enjoyed the view

M

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Ahhhhh... emoticons are our friends

didja get the last one - the atom - he he

[Somnium (Aidan)]

that is simply next level quality. great stuff

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

didja get the last one - the atom - he he

Yeah yeah, you very funny man Sir Hough ............ ...

Originally Posted by Somnium

that is simply next level quality. great stuff

Thanks Aidan, glad you like it

Mike

[Rex]

WOW! at that size it really is the cosmic Atom. Great detail and very nicely processed, very natural.