Astrobdlbug Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I made the move to narrow band ealier this year and my research took me all over the web looking at what can be imaged and the colour mixes - we have a good thread on this forum discussing narrowband colours. I 'discovered' Auriga region - the area has an amazing number of deep sky objects that just look amazing.I started on the area with IC405 and IC410, Tadpole and Flaming Star nebuls plus a few odd gas clouds for good measure, link to AstrobinAuriga IC405_IC410I then realised that the infamous Spaghetti Nebula was in fact a next door neighbour to the Flaming Star and Tadpoles, so I started to image that end of October and its taken me 6 weeks to get around 16hrs of useable data in Ha,Oii,Sii on this very faint object from my bortle 5 skies in S.Northants. So this is where I am and the image I have processed (apologies to the proponents of Ha is red, I am finding the prorocesses I use to mix the channels is resulting in more gold/brown/blue, I like it.....) link to AstrobinSH2-240However my final goal is to fill in the gaps and create a full 4 panel mosaic of this region, so I have taken images I have so far and used Microsoft ICE to stitch the Ha panels together and then overlayed the colour images as a demo - below is the screen grab and also an overlay of my WIP mosaic in CdC.May not get this finished this season as I want to put my 106mm APO on the mount and try to capture rosette in narrowband and even have a go at replicating the 'green' horsehead that Sara Wagner published a while back... I will post updates as I go.. thanks for getting this far in my post - I do tend to ramble on,thanksBryan 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazAstro Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Like it ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Looks great, particularly the Spaghetti nebula. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgrover68 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 This is pretty darn spectacular! A great image. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astroarg Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Amazing work! You've just added something else to my list of "to do" :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkulin Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Really lovely work so far Bryan and the spaghetti is to die for! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Thats stunning - I tried the spag nebula last year and the results were not good. Love it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Nice! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Wow, that is extremely wide field. Looking great so far.Carole 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob-c Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Great imaging and processing.Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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