Rcw 32 (Gum 15)

[sjastro]

A faint and rarely imaged object.
8 hrs total exposure.

HaRGB 5 hrs Ha, 1 hr R, 1 hr G, 1 hr B
BRC-250, ST-X10ME.

Larger resolution here.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/gum15c.html

Clear skies

Steven

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely image, Steven!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Pretty good Steven. Almost looks like the red half of the Trifid.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

Nicely done Steven.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

8hrs. Wow! It must be faint. Very smooth field. Gorgeous colors.

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice image, Steven! Good to see an uncommon target.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Great image. looked up the image in my copy of the night sky observr's guide and it doesn't begin to hint at how this object presents in a small telescope.

[Peter Ward]

Oh...yes! This is a very *dim* object.. hence hard to capture well.

Rarely done as well as this.

Nice one

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Thats awesome!


Looks very nice

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great result, it is a pleasure to be so close to it.

[sjastro]

Thanks for the kind comments.

This was a hard one to process, in particular extracting the reflection nebula component which is superimposed on the Ha image.

Clear skies

Steven

[spearo (Frank)]

lovely
frank

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Very nicely done Steven! I've not seen that one before. Bringing out the reflection component in an Ha blend is always a challenge!

Cheers, Marcus

[Ross G]

Great capture Steven.


Ross.

[sjastro]

Thanks Ross, Mark and Frank.

Regards

Steven