Antares Region (Reprocess)

[Carole]

I have been bashing this data around for a couple of years, as it wasn't taken with very good equipment (cheap lens and Ioptron skytracker, and it's been like trying to make a silk purse out of a Sows ear.

Anyway, I had wanted to try to get better Luminance data with the Samyang lens, but a combination of the weather in May, and inability to go back to Spain thanks to the pandemic, I decided to give the processing another bash.  Really need a decent lens and a proper mount that I can guide, but that's not going to happen unfortunately. 

DSLR approx 4 hours using Nifty 50 & Zoom lens taken in 2017
Lum 30 x 3mins + 16 x 2 mins & Nifty 50 lens combined taken in 2019

Total time 6 hours approx

[ApophisAstros]

Look a like a giant squid red tail bottom right orange body and blue tentacles , lots of work there and its paid off , wonderful and a Star Cluster thrown in.
Roger

[Carole]

Thanks Roger.  Yes now you come to mention it l can see a Squid. I have been looking at that blue nebula and wonder what it reminded me of.
Or is is perhaps an Octopus?

Carole

[Hugh]

Pareidolia is quite individual.  I couldn't see an octopus or squid but could immediately see a man in the wispy dark clouds on the left.  Standing (or floating) knees slightly bent, with outstretched arms and a (fainter) quite large head.

Hugh