Hi Peter, 

A surprisingly lot of hydrogen indeed, which until an exceptionally excited colleague of yours told me about much earlier, I never knew was there. For such a small nebula that close up you included is extremely well detailed too. You definitely succeed in extracting every photon you can from the data.

It will be interesting to see the results from pier 1 and compare the amount of hydrogen that it was able to capture. Then maybe one of the Syndicate members might take up Steve's suggestion to make a further submission.

Thanks for sharing,

Ray 

Thanks  Ray,

Yes Steve and I often discuss objects and then occasionally indulging in a big project like this.....Its something most would not justify investing the time on. Personally I thought it was a good investment.

Its definitely a processing challenge but with careful calibration the background Hydrogen just manifests itself. What actually was most surprising to me was the colour tones in the shell from the mix of Ha and OIII showing delicate yellows with a slight hint of blue. The range of brightness from the Ring to the background is massive and needs to be built in stages then assembled....Including calibration I spent just less than 15hours processing it.

Hi Peter, 

A surprisingly lot of hydrogen indeed, which until an exceptionally excited colleague of yours told me about much earlier, I never knew was there. For such a small nebula that close up you included is extremely well detailed too. You definitely succeed in extracting every photon you can from the data.

It will be interesting to see the results from pier 1 and compare the amount of hydrogen that it was able to capture. Then maybe one of the Syndicate members might take up Steve's suggestion to make a further submission.

Thanks for sharing,

Ray 

Pray tell, who may this "excited colleague" be...... :) :)