A quick hubble pallet integration of the North America and Pelican Nebula. I setup and ran this last night as just a quick test to see how doing all 3 filters in one panel would work in terms of time efficiency, I only got 28 subs per filter before the region set below the horizon and after tossing out some bad frames thanks to clouds I ended up only stacking 24 subs for each filter. Not bad and I think a bit of a time saver given I only dithered every 3rd sub rather than every sub. On a clear relatively moon free night this is probably the best use of time for the Rokinon 135m/ASI183mm setup, getting a panel done this way results in cleaner combining of the filters as well in post processing I think.
First full narrowband image I've done, the Heart Nebula and Melotte 15. It's been tricky learning how to properly combine the SHO, still working on stretching and editing the image without blowing out noise. This is a total of 18 hours over the 3 filters and even still it's amazing how much noise there is in the darker areas. Equipment: WO GT81 w/Flat6Aii F/R ZWO ASI183mm and Orio Orion Sirius EQ-G Mount (Belt Modified) Acquisition: LRGB acquired at Gain 111 and offset 11, all 8 minute subs 45 x H-alpha 48 x Oiii 46 x Sii Calibrated with darks only, all pre-processing and editing done in PixInsight
I've been working on this simultaneously with the Heart Nebula NB image, first full HaLRGB image I've ever done and boy is it difficult. I don't feel like the color balance is correct, still learning how to properly combine the RGB, Luminance, and Ha layers. This was about the best I could come up with, any suggestions would be much appreciated. Equipment: WO GT81 w/Flat6Aii F/R ZWO ASI183mm w/ZWO LRGB Filters and Orion H-alpha 7nm Filter Orion Sirius EQ-G Mount (Belt Modified) Acquisition: LRGB acquired at Gain 53 and offset 11, all 2 minute subs 180 x Lum 45 x R, G, and B 40 x H-alpha Calibrated with darks only, all pre-processing and editing done in PixInsight
