The Flaming Star & Tadpoles Nebulae

[Greg M]

IC405 The Flaming Star Nebula and IC410 The Tadpoles Nebula

StellarVue SV70T, ZWO2600MCPro, Optolong L-eXtreme Filter, iOptron CEM70EC mount.
Captured from my Bortle 8-9 backyard with NINA.
Processed with PixInsight.
40x 600sec= 6hrs40mins integration time.

C&C welcome!

[Astrobdlbug]

That’s a very pleasing composition of Flame,Tadpole and Fly - a lot of good details in all the nebula with a relatively short integration time. 
Can I ask what process you used to get the pseudo SHO as the colour palette 🎨 is really good ? 
 

Bryan

[Greg M]

10 hours ago, Astrobdlbug said:

Can I ask what process you used to get the pseudo SHO as the colour palette 🎨 is really good ? 
 

Bryan

Yeah Bryan, I used Bill's narrowband normalization PixelMath to get the base colors and from there tweaked it with Curves Transformation. Bill explains it here in the video and there's a link to the PixelMath in the video description.

 

https://youtu.be/PpIOSSj4L5g

[Astrobdlbug]

Greg- after I wrote my response to your post I thought you’d used Bill’s normalisation script - so great to hear that confirmed - I used same script on a NGC7000 image I took with same camera/filter combo as you and was really impressed with the way the script develops contrast and colour balance from the bicolour image.

Others using OSC + dual band filter should find the link you posted very  useful to help develop their images away from the rather flat red (ha) bias dual band can give.

 

Bryan