Yesterday was a good photographic day for me :)

[Skywatcher]

Just what the Doctor ordered a completely clear day and night, after watching the boy play in his orchestra I had another play with the solar camera which is certainly improving with practice





And last night , against the forecast it was clear!! Couldn't look a goft horse in the mouth so set up when it got dark enough ( about 11 pm this far North) and started to take pics of a beautiful area called the Veil nebula complex

about 10,000 years ago a Supernova occured in this area ( 2,000 light years away) and what you can see here is the 'smoke' left over from that immense explosion - the area of the sky this covers is huge and this is actually 4 DSLR sized images sititched (inexpertly) together - I have lost a lot of the subtle detail in the whisps by processing this as a whole picture rather than each individual nebula and when its all stitched the original tiff is 2 metres accross!! so clearly it looks a bit rough and ready as a tiny jpeg.

I was stopped at 3 am by the sun coming up sometimes I forget how Far North we live


Anyway suffice to say it was just the chillout session I needed



Hope you don't mind me sharing

[pigletpete]

Wow just wow

[Isafari]

Once again you have captured some unbelievably stunning photos Chris.

Anyway suffice to say it was just the chillout session I needed

This is so good to hear

[Britchick]

FANTASTIC Chris

[ukwdwnut]

absosutely stunning photos chris WOW!!!

what do you mean hope you dont mind me sharing?? everyone luvs these pix...keep em coming mate the more the better im just totally fascinated with this topic

[foreverducky]

am just in awe

[Johnie]

wow.....

[Skywatcher]

Knew there was more data in there


This part is called the witches broom

and another go at a merge

[uscwest]

Great pics Chris

[Tink]

I am so glad you had a good night!!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos with us.