Flaming Star Nebula IC405 15 Jan 2012

[MarkS]

The Flaming Star Nebula from last night.

50 x 5 min subs at ISO 800 using IR/UV filter only.
The usual setup:
H-alpha modified Canon 350D on Tak Epsilon 180ED astrograph on EQ6 mount.
Guided with with QHY5 camera stuffed in the back of a 300mm telephoto lens.
The usual processing sequence:
Stacked in IRIS and asinh dynamic range scaling applied. Background gradients removed.
Scaled by 2/3



Larger version here:
http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2012/hhic405v2.jpg

Mark

[The Thing]

Lovely effort, nearly as good as mine. 

Seriously, it's great to see the whole structure in context. When I image these largish objects I can only capture a part. I am going to have to master EQMosaic to get anything like the field of view you have with the Tak (I can just afford EQMosaic ).

[Mike]

Really nice Mark. I like the Flaming Star Nebula as it also has the nicely coloured stars around it. Makes for a colourful image.

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

Very nice, the Ha in that area goes on for ever, are you going to add some data?

Chris

[MarkS]

Very nice, the Ha in that area goes on for ever, are you going to add some data?

I'm not sure.
Tonight, assuming it's clear, I'm going to add some more data to one of my recent images:  M42, Horsehead/Flame, Rosette, Pleiades or Flaming Star.  I just haven't decided which one.

Mark

[mickw]

Really nice Mark, colours are great

[JohnP]

looks great Mark - colours are fantastic. Actually still looks like there is a bit of noise to me which is hard to believe considering amount of subs & your skies.... Superb though - john

[RobertM]

That's a great image Mark, wonderful colours thoughout.

Robert

[MarkS]

Tonight, assuming it's clear, I'm going to add some more data to one of my recent images:  M42, Horsehead/Flame, Rosette, Pleiades or Flaming Star.  I just haven't decided which one.

The Horsehead was definitely my favorite image from last year - so I'm adding more data to it tonight.  But without the antlers and red nose!!!

[RobertM]

Having another stab at M78 tonight, hopefully it should turn out better than my last attempt now they've turned the 10kw of lights off that passed as a tree at the memorial..

[Fay]

Wow so many stars Mark & lovely colours

[MarkS]

Having another stab at M78 tonight, hopefully it should turn out better than my last attempt now they've turned the 10kw of lights off that passed as a tree at the memorial..

M78?  That's a really tough target ...

[julian]

Wow
That's a great image Mark

[Carole]

A really beautiful quality image Mark.

Carole

[Mac]

Yet another fantastic image to add to your growing collection,

whens the book being published? 


Mac.