AstronomyUkraine Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 This an SHO combination of NGC 2174, or better known as the Monkey Head Nebula. Total integration time was 27 hours. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrobdlbug Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Brian, that’s a fantastic image. The 27hrs definitely brings depth and fine details to this monkey head image. I particularly like that your long integration brings out the faint areas on the boundary of the object as the dust and gas fade into deep space. Your SHO palette looks a bit different than previous images - is it a SHO/Forax blend by any chance ? Good to see your back in the groove and getting imaging time again Bryan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter shah Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 beautiful image 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightymonoped Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Gorgeous image. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinS Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Wonderful image with nice colours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P Holdsworth Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Stunning image Brian. Love the colour palette 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 (edited) On 1/30/2023 at 12:02 PM, Astrobdlbug said: Brian, that’s a fantastic image. The 27hrs definitely brings depth and fine details to this monkey head image. I particularly like that your long integration brings out the faint areas on the boundary of the object as the dust and gas fade into deep space. Your SHO palette looks a bit different than previous images - is it a SHO/Forax blend by any chance ? Good to see your back in the groove and getting imaging time again Bryan Thanks Bryan. I have started to use Bill Blanshan's normalization expressions. They work really well on SHO and HOO. I did tweak the colour in curves to bring out more orange and red. I also think using SPCC and then BlurXterminator helps with the colours, as I don't do anything differently once the image has been stretched. This is an HOO I did before I acquired the SII data. Using Bill Blanshan's HOO normalization, resulted in this image. Quite different from the SHO. Edited February 3 by AstronomyUkraine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 On 1/30/2023 at 8:08 PM, peter shah said: beautiful image Thanks Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 On 1/31/2023 at 10:32 AM, mightymonoped said: Gorgeous image. Thank you. Glad you like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 On 1/31/2023 at 11:00 AM, MartinS said: Wonderful image with nice colours. Thank you Martin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 On 2/1/2023 at 4:16 PM, P Holdsworth said: Stunning image Brian. Love the colour palette 👍 Thanks. I like this colour palette too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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