Another northern object captured at SRO in California. NGC7129 is a bubble-shaped reflection nebula illuminated by a cluster of young stars. Not quite up to the standard of the recent APOD using Subaru data but we have a much bigger FOV
Seriously is a lot going on in that field Rick, nicely done! It must be nice getting 30+ hour data sets coming out of SRO.
There is a fair bit of detail showing up at the core of the nebulous region, surprised you're not surpassing detail taken by Subaru
Seriously is a lot going on in that field Rick, nicely done! It must be nice getting 30+ hour data sets coming out of SRO.
There is a fair bit of detail showing up at the core of the nebulous region, surprised you're not surpassing detail taken by Subaru
Thanks, Colin. You'd think that having all that data would make these images easy to process but I actually find it harder. My expectations increase faster than the SNR
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A fabulous image Rick and your usual superb processing.
Lovely Rick. Does it have a blue/purple cast or is it just me? Give it another whirl just to see. I agree re. The challenges of good data, when I used to process the DSW data I often thought "where do I start?!'
Thanks, Colin. You'd think that having all that data would make these images easy to process but I actually find it harder. My expectations increase faster than the SNR
I would suspect as that as the SNR increases there is more and more than you want to try to pull out of the image so it then becomes taming the exceedingly dim stuff against the brighter stuff.
If you have limited data you process very lightly and its all over in 15 minutes
Lovely Rick. Does it have a blue/purple cast or is it just me? Give it another whirl just to see. I agree re. The challenges of good data, when I used to process the DSW data I often thought "where do I start?!'
Thanks, Simmo. You are right. There's a tinge too much magenta from the Ha combine. I've tweaked the Astrobin version very slightly.
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I would suspect as that as the SNR increases there is more and more than you want to try to pull out of the image so it then becomes taming the exceedingly dim stuff against the brighter stuff.
If you have limited data you process very lightly and its all over in 15 minutes
If you push hard enough there's always noise in the dark depths, Colin.
The full frame view of this looks fantastic Rick!
I Love the colours and the overall processing here. 50hrs of good data from a good site is something else.....! Congrats on a great result.
That's certainly a beautiful field Rick, lovely balanced colours throughout and the stars look nice and sparkly bright. A very enjoyable image well worth the effort
The full frame view of this looks fantastic Rick!
I Love the colours and the overall processing here. 50hrs of good data from a good site is something else.....! Congrats on a great result.
Thanks, Maurice.
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That's certainly a beautiful field Rick, lovely balanced colours throughout and the stars look nice and sparkly bright. A very enjoyable image well worth the effort
Ta, Mike. I tried not to soften the stars too much this time!
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Outstanding image Rick, really beautiful to look at. My partner loves it too, so I tried to sell the idea that I need a better mount
Thanks, Suavi. Start with the mount and work up from there. If you're successful we expect you to give a workshop on fundraising techniques
good luck Slaw 
