Pillars of Creation

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

The PoC in Hubble palette. About 25 hours total of data (11 H, 8 O, 6 S) from suburban Adelaide. GSO RC8 scope, ZWO ASI1600MM-C camera and ZWO filters, Mach1 mount.

The seeing wasn't as good as I'd hoped for, and dew was a constant issue. Not a great time of year to image :-) Hope to get more data next month and try to improve the detail.

Full res available on Astrobin here.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Very nice! I'm shooting this as well but much wider.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Very fine work Paul. Lovely colour depth and detail.

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thank you Kevin and Mike n Trish.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Nicely done Paul - hard to add anything new to this favourite, but yours looks great regardless!

[markas (Mark)]

Very fine image!


Mark

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thank you, Mark and Andy.

[multiweb (Marc)]

As good as it gets. Jealous.

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

LOL. Thanks Marc. Err ... this one (attached) from Hubble may be as good as it gets ! .... Now THAT is something to be jealous of

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by DiscoDuck

LOL. Thanks Marc. Err ... this one (attached) may be as good as it gets ! .... Now THAT is something to be jealous of

That is very good ...!!

[Atmos (Colin)]

Really nice Paul, you've captured some nice detail

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

That is very good ...!!

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Really nice Paul, you've captured some nice detail

Thanks Colin.

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

that big version is amazing and sharp- love the floating bok stuff- brilliant !
Graz

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thank you Graz. Very kind.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Great image Paul, well done... wouldn't have guessed that your seeing was sub-optimal!

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice work Paul, you've done well there. great processing.

cheers

russ

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thank you Russell and Lee.

Lee - well, the stack of images was something like 2.9-3.0" FWHM. Not anywhere near as low as I was after. Had to do some decon ... don't tell Mike :-)

[Nikolas (Nik)]

I love the smoothness of the image excellent result

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thanks Nik.