Astrobdlbug Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Here we are again -聽 after my Tadpole Nebula (declared last image of season 馃檮) , here is the next last nebula image of the season..... 聽 This week the skies cleared for a few hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, the transparency was not that great, especially on Wednesday and as the winter nebula聽 fade westwards into the atmospheric haze and light pollution from the many distribution sheds in Northampton imaging time is quite limited - basically 8pm - 11pm give or take 30mins. That being said, these new Antlia 3nm filters do seem to be quite resilliant to the LP and surprisingly the atmospheric haze does not seem to have resulted in any fuzzy stars . I managed to pull down 2 hrs Ha and 1hr each of Oiii and Sii,聽 total 4 hrs Integration over two eveings. Processed with APP / Pixinsight / Photoshop CC 聽 NGC 2174 is approx 6,500 light year distant 聽 I have posted the full frame , slight edge crop to remove stacking artifacts and then a closer crop as the image seems to聽 support the crop. I also rotated the frame 90deg to make the monkey head more apparent in this nebula (sometime I see it clearly and then it dissapears) 聽 Bryan 聽 Image Information 聽 Dates: March 16, 17, 2021 聽 Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT106 EDT Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro-Cool Mounts: Skywatcher AZ- EQ6-GT Guiding telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT106 EDT Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Loadestar 2 Focal reducers: Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0,75x Software: Aries Productions AstroPixelProcessor 聽路聽 PS CC 聽路聽 EKOS KSTARS INDI RASPBERRY Rpi4, EKOS, INDI, AstroBerry 聽路聽 Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8.8-4 Ripley (x64) Accessory: Celestron OAG 聽 Frames: Antlia Ha 3nm Pro 1.25": 24x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1 Antlia OIII 3nm Pro 1.25": 12x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1 Antlia SII 3nm Pro 1.25": 12x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterBolt Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 #jealous 馃槀 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmack1 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 That's come out really well. I love this target, especially when done in this palette. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrobdlbug Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, Dmack1 said: That's come out really well. I love this target, especially when done in this palette. Thanks,聽 and interesting what you say about the palette - as I tried to mix this like the rosette image I did a few weeks back which had more of a brown influence, but it really didnt look right - it just bias itself toward the SHO - it may be as there is quite a lot of Oiii signal and more Sii than Rosette, relatively.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Turned out great for only 4 hours of data. Those filters certainly do the job. 聽 Brian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter shah Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 A lovely rendition ....colour is great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Superb example, lovely colours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob-c Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Very nice image. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Great image Bryan. Those Antlia聽filters are very tempting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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