My BEST Capture of the Soul Nebula
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- I stayed on target with the Soul Nebula for 26 hours across many nights to capture this. It's captured in narrowband and processed in the Hubble Palette.
Below is the equipment I used:
Imaging Telescope:
Explore Scientific FCD100 Series 127mm Refractor Telescope
Imaging Camera:
ZWO ASI1600MM Cool
Focuser:
MoonLite 2.5" Focuser with Motor Auto-Focus
Field Flattener/Reducer:
Orion .8 Reducer
Mount:
Celestron CGX
Polar Alignment:
QHYCCD PoleMaster
Guide scope:
Orion ST80
Guide Camera:
Lodestar X2
Guide Software:
PHD2
Calibration Frames:
Darks: 50, Bias: 50, Flats: 50
Capture software:
Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) 
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Chuck you are the maestro of astrophotography. Instead of looking flat it appears 3d with the depth of the stars in the background. Brilliant! Fingers crossed
Are you KIDDING, IM MIND BLOWN
WHAT YOU CAN CAPTURE FROM YOUR OWN BACK YARD!!!!! 👍
Thanks, and even in terrible light pollution.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Where is your rough location?? if I may ask....
If that doesn't look like a curly haired girl looking at you over her right shoulder I don't know what does, great work Chuck love your videos, you're such an inspiration man
You are absolutely a Master in processing ! This is such a complex process to bring out this fantastic image ! And a master in humour too !
Great job. Chuck!!!! One can tell you love what you are doing but heck!!!! 😮😮😮 It's a massive amount of hard work and effort that you've put into this. Just brilliant. 👏👏👏👏👍👍
Love it, Chuck! Thanks for walking through the processing steps; many of us stick around for those and the increasingly bizarre text LOL
The colors are amazing, beautiful work as always Chuck, hopefully you can get some clear skies soon, keep up the great work!
Thanks, I hope so too
At the last, during showtime, I saw many "Filaters": Ha, SII and OIII! You never let us go away without making us laugh, whether knowingly or unknowingly! Very nice pic Chuck! Your "Filaters" are great too! 🤣
I saw those typos after I uploaded it. I hate that. Excuse me for a moment while I throw myself down the stairs!
@@ChucksAstrophotography No worries man! Mistakes happen. At least they make you laugh! :)
What did you say?
@@adhi3389 ?
Awesome work Chuck! Love everything about this one.
Hey thanks, Joe. I'm still undecided on the green though, lol.
Great image, Chuck! Clear skies!
Many thanks, Dennis.
Hey Chuck! Sorry i haven't been commenting much lately, i've been unwell! My friend, i luv this image and i honestly believe it's a high probability for an APOD!!?? I think it's utterly beautiful!! Thank You my friend! Wes, Liverpool UK.
Look'n good Chuck. Hope your skies clear soon
Thanks. I hope so too
Amazing colors ❤ beautiful 😍 Thanks for sharing!
Great video Chuck, and love that image! So beautifully processed!
Absolutely amazing looking!!
you make it look easy! I have been wanting to get into amateur astronomy since I was a kid (ever since I first saw the rings of Saturn through a Coulter Odyssy 1 reflecting telescope back in the 70s)... thanks for what you do!
This is absolutely amazing. You should be proud!!
Absolutely beautiful! Good work again.
Thank you very much!
Wonderful stuff as always Chuck, thank you!
Thank you!
Wow unbelieveable shot chuck!😮🌌
Thanks Dominik
Oh my gosh! Amazing! Thank you SO much for sharing!
Looks amazing Chuck. Good luck with the APOD! You really got processing nailed down.
Beautiful final image Chuck! Great video! 👌🏻
Another worthwhile session that produced a NASA APOD-worthy image to add to your collection! Outstanding job, Chuck. I am curious how the data would look in true color. I assume it would look pretty reddish due to the amount of Ha data. Would also be nice to show yours next to Travis’ (Astrobackyard), just to compare data (not skills).
Thanks. I think we could all be on an equal level skill wise, but the Hubble Palette comes down to a matter of taste since it's false color.
Love the video Chuck, and excellent image, really like the contrast and colors!
I have this scope turning up this week Chuck thanks to you! I can’t wait! Also this is awesome 👏
Glad to hear it! It's an awesome scope.
Gorgeous, Chuck!
Perfect job! I love it!
Glad you like it!
1600 back. That Soul is gorgeous. Man that’s some nice color. You’ve inspired me to go after that one. Fantastic work Chuck.
Thanks Garnett. Yeah, this is a colorful one - it helps when there is data to be found in all three narrowband filters.
Another great job Chuck! 👍
Thanks for watching, Vee!
Thank you for sharing your skills, it really helped. Your result is amazing, fingers crossed it gets you another APOD!
your heart and soul went into creating this beautiful image
Great video as always! Have great skies in Denver so I’m working on Wizard Nebula data. Hope your skies clear up soon Chuck!
Hmmm, I kinda did like that 'flatter' color view versus the more brilliant color view ... but, they both look great. Also, congratulations on getting that Lobster Claw image in the November issue of Astronomy Magazine.
(Patrick of Savannah)
Chuck, I hear ya about the weather. Here in Dayton, Ohio we have had terrible skies most of this summer.
Beautiful pic and I appreciate the Ha as L tip. I'm going to go back and try this on some of my latest pics. I just started PI last week and it has really improved my images. Thanks Chuck!
Thanks, glad it was helpful!
That looks wonderful. Great work 😉
Bootiful!! 😍😘
Definitely APOD material! 🌌❤️
Excellent work thanks for the explanation of your process!
Nice job. Looks great. Very impressive.
Glad you like it!
I like it Chuck. It looks like it's on fire!
Beautiful!!
Thanks!!
Thanks for the glow tip! I've read about it but never understood what it was doing - good to see it in your video :)
very very Cool!! Love it man!!💯🔭🌑🏆🖒👏👏👏👏
BRILLIANT!
That’s a great image of the Soul Nebula Chuck. Thanks for doing the step-by-step walk through all the image processing. Although I don’t have the gear or the software to do all this, it’s nice to see how things are done. Good luck with the APOD!! The Cat seems to really like the “Cat” telescope 😂
Well done Chuck.
Nice Chuck, great work as always man
Thanks Scott
This is amazing Chuck! Recently tried the Pleiades, but failed. Hope you have clear skies soon so we can see some more amazing astrophotos!
Very good results Chuck
super Chuck!! The Green Point of The Image is Very Beautiful. Pretty Artistic!👍🏻
Thanks DSH!
Really like it. That cat is looking like it is contemplating jumping. Doesn't look trustworthy at all!
I noticed. I actually would have been funny to see if it made the leap.
Subbed that equipment is amazing
Great shot, really impressed
3rd straight week of cloud and rain here in South Wales 😩
Awesome, sir!
Pure Beauty
Making a Starnet mask from the original OIII master. Nice! Saving that one for the toolbox :).
Hey Chuck! - A beauty of a capture, well done!! - I notice at 6:35 you're inverting the image, running scnr then reinverting to get rid of magenta from the stars - you may consider trying out the 'correct magenta stars' script, one click and done, a very fast process to run! works awesome for me :-)
Clear skies mate!!
Great work
Thanks Pero
Looks great!!! I want that for my computer wallpaper.
awesome vid and pic
Great image chuck
Great picture sir
Talking about thumbs and sewers, I don't know what's going on, lol 😉😉😉.
This is beautiful. I can't wait till I get a telescope. I get so excited to see Venus, Jupiter and Mars with the naked eye. I've seen all the planets excluding Mercury and Pluto through a backyard telescope. What's the current vote on Pluto? Is it or isn't it?
I've been capturing ha data for 3 nights straight now and am glad with the results, your final image looks phenomenal! Ive just got a skyguider tracking mount is all, framing is a challenge and i dont even bother with Mer flips because its such a pain to frame as is
Nice one Chuck.. love the final image. I'm digging the green :)
Glad you like it, now I'm having second thoughts on the green, lol.
@@ChucksAstrophotography lol.
Maybe dial it back a little.. 20-30% of scnr tool :)
Very nice Chuck
Thanks Charlie!
I love it
Permission to speak, superb yet again Chuck, you nail it every time. Only sad thing is, no video for a week!
Hope to process one 1/4 as good as this. Enjoy your work Chuck.
Amazing! I have a very long journey to even get close.
So much useful stuff in here! Thanks Chuck. Lol 😂
Doing DBE again so far into processing is a new idea to me, I see where it really helped your image. Glad to see you sharing processing again. How is Cain? Tim
Nice picture.
Thanks Ralph
LIKE FROM 🇧🇷 chuck! @astrodouglas here!!!
Hello @astrodouglas
I absolutely love astronomy,but Im not really good at few subjects like maths,science and stuff and those are really important to study about astronomy,really wish my dad buys me a telescope or something like space is so cool
WOW. Amazing man. Great job. You should work for NASA. 😎
Thanks, maybe one day when I grow up
Personally, I'm not a big hubble palette guy (just hate the color green in space I guess), but you got tons of sharp detail in all those pillars and billows of gas and such... the palette does help those pop out.
what are really cool channel you have here Chuck. new subscriber here.
Beautiful Chuck! I still need a better image of the Soul haha.
Thanks! It's a fun target, very bright!
That image is as beautiful as you...
lol, thank you!
@@ChucksAstrophotography You are very lucky bro....
You are having multiple telescopes, I'm having only celestron g2 up-close 10x50 binoculars...😓😓
awesome
I guess you’re lucky since weather in Michigan is always super predictable and we never get any surprises ever.
I wish
@@ChucksAstrophotography yesterday it was 70 degrees and sunny. Today it’s 37 degrees and rainy.
Great !
Thanks Laxmi
Chuck: "you can tell me if you dont like!" ....god, wish i came even remotely close as good as this is. Absolutely love it!
Wrong
The nebula almost looks like a sad spirit.
Interesting. When capturing the whole thing, it looks to me like a piglit.
Ur my Idol bro
lol, thanks!
@@ChucksAstrophotography 🤯🤯
After you've renamed to Chuck's Wildlife & Astrophotography, you need to rename it again to Chuck's Wildlife, Fun-Facts & Astrophotography. Good luck with the APOD submission, you seem to be collecting them at this point - well deservedly so. Your pictures are amazing and your videos are both entertaining and educational.
This colors are beautiful! Well done. You can really see the form and shape of the clouds.
Any thoughts on upgrading to the 294mm?
Thanks, I hear the 294 is a great camera. But no thoughts on upgrading.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Have you had any difficulty keeping your calibration frames from both of your 1600mm separate?
Great image, Chuck. I really like that one. I hate to say I haven't taken advantage of Starnet much. I like your method of processing the starless image. What process do you use to add the stars back in? It might make a nice 'Short' video. Thanks for sharing.
It has been my observation that when a Rabbit survives proximity with a Cat then the Rabbit is packin'. After all, it is a Detroit Rabbit. You don't mess with a Detroit Rabbit. Nope.
LOL. I thought rabbits were supposed to multiply - how come I only ever see the one?
@@ChucksAstrophotography Well, some Rabbits are so bad that even other Rabbits won't hang.
Great pic by the way. Need to get a review from the Cat and the Rabbit. Expand your audience. Especially if the Rabbit has kin that do multiply. You will be up to half a million subscribers in no time!
@@textandtelescope8199 That would be nice. Maybe I can start making some money, lol.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Don't forget commission to the Agent who suggested the audience!
Nice chuck
Thanks 👍
@@ChucksAstrophotography are you going to stream again anytime soon?
@@abnerlmfao9556 Not any time soon. I'm losing subscribers on those streams. I may wait for an event to live-stream again so that it will be more interesting.
@@ChucksAstrophotography okay
Fantastic! Dark Structures Script? I’ve got to try that.
Whatever happened to “there’s no Green in space”? I like the image but wow there’s a lot of green there. Good luck Chuck! There may just be another APOD for you with this image.
Hubble palette
Yeah, I'm liking green lately.
Green in making a comeback! :)
In all seriousness.. green use to be in all Hubble palette images. Then somewhere along the way it became popular to remove 100% of green. I personally prefer to have a little green in there and have been leaving some in my SHO images.
@@DSOImager I think you’re right about the comeback. Was just browsing Astrobin and there’s a lot of green there too.
Looks great! Have you found the little shadow man in the core yet : )
Hes on the lower portion in your shots
lol, no
Hey Chuck!
Hey Kush!
definitely APOD material
What do I think?, you know what I think boss, another great lesson for me!, hey so I'm getting great results with my asi2600mc pro and the rasa 8".. I'm thinking on start doing monochrome, what camera you think it would be a good choice, should I get the asi2600mm pro or smaller sensor would work ok with the rasa 8? I also have the Orion Eon 115 triplet. Any tips are welcome. Thanks Chuck.
Even though I don't have one, the asi2600mm seems very appealing - I would love to try that one.
I think that's the one I will get when I'm ready.. keep up the great work Chuck👍 👏
Hey Chuck, any suggestions on a decent scope for me to start with? Maybe $350-450
Great job. What do you prefer for RASA8, Eq6rpro Vs ioptron CEM40?. Thanks
Thanks! I can't compare my EQ6R-Pro to the iOptron since I've never own an iOptron. But I'm very happy with the EQ6R-Pro