The Tulip nebula (Sh2-101)

[swag72]

The Tulip Nebula, or Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) or the Cygnus Star Cloud is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years from Earth.

This is a total of 23 hours of exposure time, mostly made up of 30 minute exposures.


Sh2-101 (Tulip nebula) in Hubble palette por swag72 ([URL='http://www.swagastro.weebly.com)[/url']www.swagastro.weebly.com)[/url], en Flickr

You can see a larger resolution image on my website if you are interested http://swagastro.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/3/7/23377322/sh2-101_stars.jpg[/url]

 

[hiphopopotamus]

Absolutely incredible, well done.
Going to have to look into astrophotography now!

 

[swag72]

Thanks, glad you like it!

Don't look into astrophotography like this unless you have a healthy bank balance and a lot of time and patience!!

 

[Joeturner11]

That is a stunner, not much else can be said

 

[jbw]

Truly sublime !
James

 

[buckas]

Just amazing, love it

 

[jakeblu]

Fantastic as usual. The full res is stunning so much detail

 

[Broric]

Is that 23 consecutive hours? I.e. You took half of this in daylight?

 

[swag72]

Thanks all for looking and taking thetime to comment. I appreciate that this sort of photography is a little on the niche side!!!

@Broric - No it's 23 hours worth taken over 4 nights, eacg exposure being 30 minutes long. I can go back to the same place each night and just keep adding exposures to my existing lot. If I told you that my camera is a mono one and to get a colour image I have to use filters, would probably make it just sound plain mad!!!

 

[Broric]

I might be being stupid but how do you line up the same shot each night?

 

[swag72]

I have an observatory, so nothing changes orientation from night to night. My mount has goto so I tell it to go to a target and there it is. In the same place as the night before, roughly!

 

[Broric]

Ah that explains it, cheers.

 

[Leebert]

Wow! Stunning image.
I feel a strong urge to get the scope out again. Just need to wait for the darker evenings...

 

[swag72]

Cheers Lee - Do you image or are you a visual guy?

 

[Tintin124]

Still don't get how this all works but my do I love looking at your work and effort put into it.

 

[Leebert]

Cheers Lee - Do you image or are you a visual guy?

Imaging mainly but do like to have a look around too. I treated myself to an APM 107 last year but only used it a couple of times! Seeing images like yours inspire me to get out the scope again. Thanks for posting

 

[jamiewednesday]

Oh nuts.

 

[HarryLens]

Only thing that comes to mind is beautiful. Plus you've got the patience of a saint. I'd love to be able to do something as stunning as this. Excellent work.

 

[swag72]

Thanks Shane

 

[tingting44]

Hi Sara, i did not know you were a member here also! nice to see your work on a white website instead of a black one lol

stunning as usual

 

[swag72]

Cheers Martin!! I hang around a few places, it has to be said