Esen Tunar Photography

Name: Esen Tunar Photography
Address: Bridgwater, SOMERSET, GB
Telephone: +447875722971

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Landscape photography from stunning seascapes to majestic mountains and everything in-between. Also dabbling in a bit of astrophotography when the clouds part.

Please visit www.esentunar.com to see my complete portfolio and purchase prints.

25/03/2022

The elephant's trunk nebula in Cepheus constellation. Captured from July to December last year and finally been processed into Hubble SHO palette.

It is located about 2400 light years away from Earth and is thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young stars.

Total acquisition time: 26.5 hours

105 x 300s Sii
100 x 300s Ha
115 x 300s Oiii

Equipment:

Skywatcher Esprit 100
ZWO ASI 1600mm pro
Antlia SHO Narrowband Filters
Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro

20/12/2021

This is a widefield image of the beautiful SADR region along the central belt of milky way. It's full of so much detail that you can't capture with longer telescopes. It's captured using narrowband filters and edited in Hubble palette where Sulphur is mapped to Red channel, Hydrogen is mapped to Green and Oxygen is mapped to Blue. So in this image, yellow/orange areas are mainly hydrogen, and the redder parts are sulphur, with oxygen making up the blue parts.

Some of the notable objects here are Butterfly nebula (big bright orange section lower left), Crescent Nebula (bright object in the middle) and the Tulip Nebula (bright object upper right section).

The image is made up of 2 different panels and each panel has 5 hours of Hydrogen (Ha), 4 hours of Sulphur (Sii) and 4 Hours Oxygen (Oiii) and was captured over multiple nights back in November.

29/10/2021

M81 (Bode Galaxy - the bottom one) and M82 (Cigar Galaxy - top one) in HaLRGB.
This was meant to be my last winter project. I'm not a big fan of galaxies as they are small and difficult to get good images without longer telescopes but thought I'd this one because of the background dust.

I was hoping the dust in the background to be more pronounced but i struggled bringing it out without blowing the stars too much or introducing too much noise. Possibly one to re-process again in the future.

Equipment:
HEQ5
ASI1600mm
WO ZS61

Exposure:
60x3min RGB each
320x3min L
80x5min Ha

21/03/2021

I give you all my heart... nebula that is...
I started this image back in October. It took me couple of months to get all the data I needed for the SHO palette. I then initially processed it in Photoshop but was never truly happy with the result.
I finally got PixInsight couple months ago and been working on reprocessing this there. It took me many attempts to get the colours I wanted using the pixel math, and then many more attempts to get small stars. But I am finally happy with the end result.

Mount: HEQ5
Scope: WO ZS61
Camera: ASI1600mm-pro
99x300s Ha, 93x300s Oiii, 85x300s Sii - all with Gain 139, offset 0

21/02/2021

Soul Nebula (Westerhout 5 / IC1848) captured in narrowband Hubble palette SHO. This is one of the two large nebulae located in the constellation Cassiopeia and a popular autumn target.

Total exposure time: 18.8 hours
Ha: 86 x 300s
Oiii: 81 x 300s
Sii: 59 x 300s with matching darks, flats and dark flats.

ASI1600mm-pro
ZS61
HEQ5

31/01/2021

IC 410 Tadpole Nebula and IC 410 Flaming Star Nebula in the constellation Auriga captured in Narrowband false colour of Hubble Palette where (Sulphur) Sii is mapped to Red channel, Ha (Hydrogen Alpha) is mapped to green channel and Oiii (Oxygen) is mapped to blue channel.

26/12/2020

Today I decided to reprocess this image of Orion Constellation. It was originally captured in Exmoor back in January 2017. Comparing it with the older version, I definitely didn't do it justice back then with my processing.

Orion constellation is probably one of the most colorful parts of the winter night sky. Some of the notable features are the witches head nebula (bottom right), great orion nebula (middle lower blue nebula), horsehead and flame nebulas (middle), barnard's loop (big arch of gas on the left of the frame) and other numerous gas and dust clouds.

24/12/2020

I always thought this photo had a Christmas feel to it so I wanted to share it on Christmas Eve. Comet Neowise captured back in the summer glowing bright over Burrow Mump in Somerset Levels.

Wishing everyone a good Christmas. Hope you can manage to enjoy it despite the circumstances.

23/12/2020

Silhouetted Quiver tree with the new moon setting behind. Thanks to the crisp desert sky, earthshine on the moon was really pronounced.

20/12/2020

This little dassie rat was kind enough to pose at the right place as I was photographing the quiver trees in Namibia. I would like to pretend it was intentional but it was simply being in the right place at the right time.

29/11/2020

Sand dune details from a helicopter ride over the Namib Sand Dunes in Namibia.

08/11/2020

Granite hills of Swopmanskoop in Northern Namibia. Under a bright moon, the details of the landscape are clearly visible even at night. Bright moonlight is a great time to create star trails similar to this one as the sky is often too bright to capture details of Milky Way...

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+447875722971

Website

http://www.esentunar.com/

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