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IC1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula Work In Progress


TerryMcK

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End of February and start of March 2021 was surprisingly clear in the UK especially around the Jousting Tent Observatory. I am still in progress on this but have done two renditions of the Elephant Trunk, one a bit like what we see a lot Ha mapped to red and the other done in SHO with some none standard colour manipulation.

On both of the images I have tried to emphasize the head and trunk with a little of the surrounding areas.

 

Scope: William Optics ZS103 with x0.8 flattener

Camera: ZWO ASI183MM

Ha 49 x 360 second, gain 111, offset 8

OIII 42 x 360 second, gain 111, offset 8

SII 42 x 360 second, gain 111, offset 8

Total integration time (so far) is 13.3 hours from Bortle 7/8 with almost full moon both nights. However the target was almost 180 degrees away this time so nothing lost of the OIII/SII. I did have an issue with a neighbouring tree creeping in to the guide scope but I dodged a bullet. 

 

I intend to make this more of a wider field as the bit above the head was cut off in integration. So the FOV will be almost 1/2 as tall again. I will have a play around with the PI script WBPP V2.02 script to see if I can adjust it. Or maybe just use APP which I know will do it.

 

Processed with PixInsight, Photoshop CC2021 and the fantastic Topaz Denoise AI.

 

The first one here is HSO 

 

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Both are nice, but I prefer SHO on this target so the blue shines through, though your SHO image is a little dark and I can't see much sign of blue, perhaps that was down to your processing technique.

 

I have no idea with CMOS cameras BTW, I used CCD.

 

Carole 

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6 minutes ago, Carastro said:

Both are nice, but I prefer SHO on this target so the blue shines through, though your SHO image is a little dark and I can't see much sign of blue, perhaps that was down to your processing technique.

 

I have no idea with CMOS cameras BTW, I used CCD.

Thanks Carole. It is work in progress and I imagine my masking was a bit heavy handed. I prefer the SHO too.

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I am still working on this and the latest SHO one I have does show a lot of blue around the nebula. I still have a lot to do but I think I am on the way.

Here is a quick screen grab from PI. I might not end up with the bright orange - haven't decided yet.

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7 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

I am still working on this and the latest SHO one I have does show a lot of blue around the nebula. I still have a lot to do but I think I am on the way.

Here is a quick screen grab from PI. I might not end up with the bright orange - haven't decided yet.

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IMO, I like these colours.. 

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There is just sooooo much going on in this image - the dust clouds, the  dark 'boks' if thats what they are in lower right, the dirty orange I  like , it gives the trunk a real moody appearance - bit of a nod to Hendrix with the purple perhaps 🙂  ....looking very promising

Bryan

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On 3/3/2021 at 2:12 PM, TerryMcK said:

I am still working on this and the latest SHO one I have does show a lot of blue around the nebula. I still have a lot to do but I think I am on the way.

Here is a quick screen grab from PI. I might not end up with the bright orange - haven't decided yet.

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This version is getting there, I see a slight purple tint in the background and maybe reduce the green just a tad overall.

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