Greg M Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 09/03_04/2021 First light with all new gear. Explore Scientific ED152CF f8 - 1216mm F.L. ZWO ASI2600mm Pro Chroma RGB filters 30x 120sec ea. RGB = 3 hours Taken from Nelson's Landing, southeast of Las Vegas. Edited in PixInsight, tweaked in PhotoShopCC Over the course if this night and the evening of 09/04_05 I also managed to capture 3 hours of Ha and 3 hours of OIII data that I have yet to integrate into this image. I've learned that with the new 2600mm I can push my broadband exposures much greater than I could with the 1600. I should have went with 4 or even 5 minute subs. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterBolt Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Very nice👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P Holdsworth Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 That's a beautiful image 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Lovely image, even starting to see some of the outer faint nebulosity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgrover68 Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Excellent image. I 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 Here it is with the Ha & OIII data added but my PixInsight skills are horrible, I'm just now learning the program. It doesn't seem to have added much yet there is so much in the stacked Ha & OIII channels. I don't think I have the percentages on the combine right just yet. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter shah Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 A lovely clean shot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyShed Observatories Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 6:33 PM, Greg M said: Here it is with the Ha & OIII data added but my PixInsight skills are horrible, I'm just now learning the program. It doesn't seem to have added much yet there is so much in the stacked Ha & OIII channels. I don't think I have the percentages on the combine right just yet. Getting there, one thing is to not clip the black point too much. Making the background too dark will lose the fainter details. A little more noise might show but that can be dealt with. Another tip is to separate the stars with Starnet and work on the nebulosity and stars to get the best colours in each. A little star reduction and tweaking on the separate images then recombine with Pixelmath. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 8 hours ago, MarkAR said: Getting there, one thing is to not clip the black point too much. Making the background too dark will lose the fainter details. A little more noise might show but that can be dealt with. Another tip is to separate the stars with Starnet and work on the nebulosity and stars to get the best colours in each. A little star reduction and tweaking on the separate images then recombine with Pixelmath. Thanks Mark. At this point, that is beyond my scope of knowledge. I'll get there eventually. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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