What Fortunes Do You See Gazing in the Crystal Ball Nebula: NGC1514
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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What a great little planetary nebula (and it is pretty small. 2arcmin in diameter for the bright inner part and 3arcmin in diameter for the outer halo)! It sits just 1500 lightyears away. It was this object that made Herschel rethink a lot of what he though the heavens were comprised of. I took a full set of LRGB images as well as dedicated OIII and Ha images to give as much detail into this little PN as I could.
Not only is the PN itself just a gem, there are so many interacting galaxies in the background which would easily fit into the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. One very intriguing one to me is one with an interacting double lobed structure (LEDA 1905882). The WISE J04085.78+311431.4 with pinwheel or octopus arms is sitting at a staggering 685 million light years away. It truly must be quite massive to have so much detail resolved on it. Looking through the NED database and IRSA finder charts I may have some of the best resolution of these galaxies in an image.
There is also dust reflecting off bright magnitude 8 star HD26125 that is designated Ced28 Interstellar Medium.
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I’m convinced that you have invented a cloud-piercing filter! How else can you be accumulating so much data? Gorgeous image, great walk-though.
A truly historic target that most people don’t appreciate. It was the target that made Herschel change his mind that nebulae were not always “just faint unresolved stars” and that with such a bright central star in the middle of all the gas meant it was likely to be connected to the star’s own evolution. It transformed his appreciation of the objects he then encountered…
Nicely done! Looks like you're putting that Newt through its paces.
Very cool galaxies! Nice capture!!
thanks, appreciate your excellent work !
Beautiful picture. Love it
I saw your image on Astrobin, where you mentioned this video. Really interesting. I love exploring distant galaxies as well.
I feel a bit common, though... I had unexpected clear skies last night and didn't have the time to research targets, so I panicked and imaged the Orion Nebula...😁
If this is your first time to the channel welcome! There is a lot of content so feel free to browse around! How did the Orion shots go?
@@setiv2 Thanks Frank! It may be my first comment, but I've watched quite a few of your videos, quite often referred to by Sascha from View into Space. Most of my standard workflow is now based on your tools and your OSC workflow you made a video about lately. You're having such a positive impact on the astrophotography community. Keep it up, please!
The Orion Nebula shoot went well, thanks! It's become a bit of a benchmark for me, as it was the first DSO I imaged. The first image was with a planetary camera and a C9.25. The only post processing I knew about was stacking, so the final image was completely unprocessed (not even stretched).
I've since then returned to the Orion Nebula as I've learnt more and more to kind of benchmark where I'm at ;-)
I took the latest image with my Askar 103APO (yes, the same as Sascha has!), and it's the best I've taken, even though I was hoping for a better dynamic range, colours and resolution. I think the seeing conditions could have been better, so I'll be returning to Orion Nebula again when I get a chance.
I'm quite happy with the result, though. I also did a Foraxx palette version that turned out very nicely (if I say so myself!): astrob.in/w2uch9/B/
@danielpetzen oh awesome!! Glad you are getting some use out of the scripts and videos! What filters do you have? There are some sharp halos around your stars.
@@setiv2 Absolutely! My post processing is divided into before and after Statistical Stretch! :-)
I haven't made the leap into mono yet, so I'm using an ASI294MC with Optolong UVIRCut and L-eXtreme.
I did try the Halo-B-Gone, but couldn't get rid of them (I was only doing it quite quickly, so I may have been going about it the wrong way. I'll give it another try.).
I've been imaging a lot of nebulea and the Magellanic clouds, so I've not had many pictures with really bright stars in them, so this problem is a bit new to me.
@danielpetzen for those you need blemish blaster or clone stamp them away
Spectacular! Thanks for making me simile.
On my way…slewing, slewing…nice inspiration for something new!
Woohoo!!
Great image for such a small object
1000 million light years away.. still processing this.
I shouldve just said a billion, but thousand million came out of my mouth lol
@setiv2 Well it works, so distant i struggle to imagine. 🤯
Brilliant video
Sacré shoot…!!.top ton setup…!.
More good stuff! :) A bit to small for my 400 mm FL scope though. lol
Lovely image; unfortunately the target is too low on my northern horizon for me to give it a go. You mentioned that you blended the NB data with the RGB data - what process/script did you use to do that?
For this i made a small lightness mask around the PN using my FAME script and then did a simple screen in pixelmath
Comment for the algorithm. Great image.
Excellent work again Franklin, would your data be available to work on at all, love your channel so informative 👍
All my master light data for all my images are available to channel members. It is one of the perks for being a channel member. When you join look through the channel member only posts and there is a link to the data repository.