First Hubble Palette Image -IC1396 (Elephants Trunk)

[tdnicholls]

Hi,

Been a while since I have posted an image here, not really done a great deal so far this year, weather and building and Obs has slowed things.

Had some issues with the QSI 6120 but camera now back from its american trip, obs built and functioning and 2 clearish nights with no moon allowed a few subs.

Decided to give the NB filters a work out and here is the result, pretty pleased the way this turned out with the limited data.

The tech stuff..

5 x 10m Ha

5 x 15m OII

4 x 15m SII

59 Bias and 19 Darks, 29 flats for each channel

Tak FSQ 106 + Reducer (385mm FL and f/3.6)

Paramount MX

QSI 6120

Captured with SGPro and processed in Pixinsight

[xtreemchaos]

thats a great image mate, lovely colour and detail.  thanks for sharing.  charl.

[KyleStoke]

Fantastic image especially for such a short amount of integration time

[des anderson]

WHAT a picture....what a picture,just awesome.

[Astromaster130]

That is awesome✨

[laudropb]

Very nice image, full of detail and balanced colours. Thanks for posting.

[orion25]

Fabulous! The color and detail is wonderful. I can't take my eyes off this image.

Please, post more often 

[PatrickGilliland]

Nice work with colour going well up the trunk which is always a challenge I find.

Paddy

[jimao22]

Amazing picture, indeed...

Is like floating inside the nebula when looking to that picture. The processing is far beyond the average skill. What kind of filter did you use?

[tdnicholls]

Thanks for all the positive comments on this one, I am very pleased with as it the first time I had used all the filters and actually done a full process of my NB data.

I was going to add more data to this but may now switch to a mosaic of the wider area.  

@jimao22 - these are 5nm Astrodon filters, thanks for the processing comment, is something I have worked hard to get to grips with, far more challenging that the capture side.

Thanks again

[gnomus]

That is terrific.

[Astroblagger]

Lovely rendition of the elephants trunk, nice colours too.

[Alienfox]

I have no idea what your talking about on the technical side, but, that is a WOW image, an inspiration to me to get to know more. Thanks for sharing.

[Boren]

Nice result indeed.

You may like to have look at Bob Franke's site, for some hints on how to manipulate the colors to the turquoise and gold result.

Cheers,

Harel

[astro mick]

Beautiful image,which brand of filters do you use?

A credit.

Mick.

[tdnicholls]

Beautiful image,which brand of filters do you use?

A credit.

Mick.

Hi Mick,

Thanks, I am using 5nm Astrodons 

[tony]

Nice one Trev, like that.