Another "drive by" quick imaging session of a target that is part of my massive mosaic, this one of the Veil Nebula. I managed a quick 1 hour per filter session last night before clouds moved in, tried desperately to not push the editing of the precious little data that's there. This is such a hard target, it really is a delicate veil and I think the vast majority of people push their editing too far. I'd love to push the total integration time up to 3-4 hours per filter to get a really good wide shot to go with my more tightly framed Eastern Veil image from earlier this year. Another target that's getting late in the year to shoot, really limited to maybe 3-4 hours in a night right now before it gets too low on the horizon.
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
