NGC6888 - Crescent Nebula - 7 Hours in HOO & SHO

[mightymonoped]

Fooling around in Astro Pixel Processor & Photoshop with just shy of 7 hours worth of Crescent captured over three sessions.

 

This time it's processed with separate star layer/starless versions but I've also got some with 60% stars waiting to play with.

 

SHO was a bit of a hack as I never actually created even a false SII channel, just mucked around with a copy of the Ha channel.

 

Still need to capture some RGB stars for all of these, which hopefully will improve things a bit.

 

Not very fond of the star removal in APP but it's early days. Wish I could use starlet++ but I don't use Pixinsight and my new pc is a Mac M1 so no chance right now.

 

Hey ho!

 

 

 

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by mightymonoped

[mightymonoped]

Got my starnet++ working on the Mac Mini M1 - woohoo! 🙂

 

I think this is a much better HOO?

 

Tony

 

[rwillits]

I have a preference for the second image. 🙂

[Galileo]

me too, unusual colour rendition but looks more detailed

[Sonyme]

No 2's the one for me. Pardon the expression!  Gary

[mightymonoped]

Here's another process merging the individual Ha & OIII extracts with a combined Ha-OIII.

I wanted to focus in on the crescent a bit and see what the difference was.

 

 

[Sonyme]

This process puts a completely different spin on your previous images. I like the faint glow around the nebula.   Gary