Starless Cone and Fox Furr Nebula


Posted by Dan Kearl on Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:26 pm

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I got about 15 hours of imaging on this target last year with a 294mc camera and added 6 more hours last Friday night with a 2600mc camera and stacked it all together.. It took 10 hours...
I went Starless to show the amazing Nebula structure....
This is located in the Monoceros constellation near Orion.
2700 light years away.
Stacked in APP, Processed mostly in Pixinsight.
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by david fletcher on Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:30 pm
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My oh my! What a fabulous sight! Top work Dan.
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by Scott Fairbairn on Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:01 pm
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Fantastic Dan, I really like starless for nebulas, it really shows off the details!
 

by MalcolmBenn on Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:15 pm
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Amazing imagery ... I'm feeling the need for some Star Trek.
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by Axel Hildebrandt on Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:53 pm
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Definitely worth the time and effort, Dan. Do you have an estimate how wide the area in view is?
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by Dan Kearl on Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:41 pm
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Thanks everyone.
Alex, This frame is approximately 30 light years x 20 light years.
For reference, the earth is 8 light minutes from the Sun (92 million miles).
So it is trillions of miles, almost impossible to imagine..
 

by Axel Hildebrandt on Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:06 am
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Dan Kearl wrote: Thanks everyone.
Alex, This frame is approximately 30 light years x 20 light years.
For reference, the earth is 8 light minutes from the Sun (92 million miles).
So it is trillions of miles, almost impossible to imagine..
Thanks, Dan! This is really fascinating and hard to imagine. 
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by Mark Boranyak on Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:10 am
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Yikes. This is so spectacular. Your skills are incredible and beyond most of us mere mortals. Thanks for sharing.
 

by John Labrenz on Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:15 am
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Amazing!
Love your processing here!
 

by Cynthia Crawford on Thu Feb 16, 2023 5:42 pm
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Love the "furry" shapes and textures , and the amazing blue focal point- wonderful work, as always, Dan. Nice without the stars.
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by DavePat on Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:46 pm
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This really is an incredible image and the processing amazing.  I am curious how true the colors are, or if that is even possible.  Were any filters used such as IF to bring out some of that frequency or is this strictly an RGB image?
 

by Dan Kearl on Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:26 pm
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DavePat wrote: This really is an incredible image and the processing amazing.  I am curious how true the colors are, or if that is even possible.  Were any filters used such as IF to bring out some of that frequency or is this strictly an RGB image?
Thanks Dave,
I use a expensive Radian Triad filter with a color camera so it is shot in RGB and comes out of camera mostly Hydrogen (Red).
However, you can create a SHO (Sulphur, Hydrogen, Oxygen) image which is the Hubble telescope palette of yellows and blues
by channel swapping and manipulating in Pixinsight in lieu of using a mono camera and SHO filters.
It takes a lot of imaging time but you can achieve a similar result to a Mono camera in post processing IF the nebula has enough oxygen in it.
 

by Eia on Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:08 pm
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This.  is.  INCREDIBLE !
I don't think I have seen anything like this. You capture and process is amazing!
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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Feb 22, 2023 4:30 pm
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Wow wow wow!!! Cool idea to process it without stars
 

by Peter Ireland on Sun Feb 26, 2023 7:04 am
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Top-notch work once again, Dan.
 

by Karl Egressy on Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:57 am
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Lots of work but the end result is very impressive.
 

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