The Jellyfish Nebula is the last of our early spring projects. I processed the data twice, rendering the image in its natural color and then in the Foraxx Palette. I couldn't decide which I liked better, so I chose to share both.
Imaging by @alex NYC-Bortle 9 / 163 x 300s subs / Poseidon-C Pro / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) / AM5 ZWO asi120mm mini / Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Filter
After upgrading my desktop's RAM, I was able to process the data we collected on Lower's Nebula. Given the nebula's dim surface and NYC's abysmal light pollution, the resulting image required nearly twenty-six hours of integration time!
Imaging by @alex NYC-Bortle 9 / 311 x 300s subs / Poseidon-C Pro / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) / AM5 ZWO asi120mm mini / Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Filter
Djaffar a capturé #ngc2237 la #nébuleuse de la Rosette en SHO. 1h20 de poses en tout dont 5 de 5 minutes en H-Alpha, 5 de 5 minutes en O3 et 5 de 5 minutes en S2 avec son matériel habituel, une lunette FRA500 avec son réducteur, ASI 2600mm, Filtres SHO Antlia. Traitement avec #pixinsight
A bit of random browsing around the night sky stumbled across Sharpless Sh2-140 in Cepheus. 10.5hr data shot with an 80ED and IDAS NBZ filter, processed and Ha & OIII channels extracted in APP, tweaked and combined in PixInsight and Affinity.
Editing is done and voilà: Orion the hunter, marvel of the winter nightsky! 🙌 🌌
It's a bit sad, there was much white in the bottom right corner (probably due to a streetlamp) so I had to crop it there. But still the main target is nicely visible. The use of 'BlurXTerminator' in PI still amazes me: Look at the detail of the horsehead (close to Alnitak, the bottom of Orion's belt).
Exif: 38 x 90s; F/2; 50mm; ISO-800;
Second try at processing my IC 63 image. The previous one had the terrible halo around Navi. This time I used H-alpha data for my luminance during processing. Less halo, more nebulosity. Definitely a better result. #astrophotography#pixinsight
The North America Nebula, also ✨ NGC 7000 ✨. I captured it about a year ago using DSLR but decided to finally pull the trigger and get the narrowband filters.
These Sulfur-2, Hydrogen-alpha and Oxygen-3 filters allowed me to recreate the Hubble telescope color palette (as seen on the famous Pillars of Creation image).