NGC1333/VDB17

Hi,

What a fascinating object this is! Located in Perseus about 1000 light years distant,star forming,emission nebula,reflection nebula and a giant molecular cloud.
OK, I'm just repeating what I've read on this area,very interesting stuff!

Inspired by some of the great images I have seen of it I decided to go ahead and give it a try. Seeing was horrible both nights I shot this but worse yet transparency wasn't it's best either. I was a bit dissapointed with the quality of the Luminance after putting in quite a bit of time on it,just did not get as much of the outer dusty areas as I had hoped for and it was quite noisy due to the sky conditions.
The RGB combine was a gradient filled nightmare > By the time I dealt with the gradients, there was not a lot of color left.
Ok,enough excuses.

Here's what I ended up with after 5 hours of Luminance and 1.8 hours each of RGB.Might give it another try with a reducer on the scope.

TMB115 at F7
ST10xme
1200gto

Thanks for taking a look,

Jason

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Beautiful shot Jason!
Quite an interesting object indeed... thanks!

Question... how long were your subs?

Perfect proccessing.

Ido.

It looks pretty good so far, Jason. The color is spot on.
You're correct in both of your observations. This is indeed a dim object. I put in about 14 hours on it, and that seemed just barely sufficient.
Secondly, this isn't a one trick pony. This area has Herbig-Haro objects, a reflection nebula, protostars, and lots of dust.
The Spitzer image of this area is revealing since it sees through the dust:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer20070829b.html
My favorite image of this area, though, is Travis Rector's:
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1037.html

dan

Great Job, Jason. NGC1333 is one of my favorite objects. You're image is spot on as far as color goes.

Here's my version from the past. There is a lot going on in the region.
http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_000033.htm

Tom

Hi Jason,
This is a very nice object. You can always add more to it on a better night. This looks nice though and it shows what the object is all about.

Great work Jason! I really like the detail you captured under what sounds like difficult conditions.

-Eric

Very nice Jason!

You are right - there sure is a lot of stuff going on around there. I don't see any gradients, or other various "nightmares," so you did a good job with the processing. Looks nice.