Another Crescent to Tulip Ha OIII RGB

[Mike Hawtin]

Yes, I'm afraid so, this one is also a panel mosaic taken with a QHY9 through my Borg 71FL and quad reducer/flattener.  Each panel is 12 x 600 sec RGB, 14 x 600 sec Ha and 17 x 600 sec OIIII.

I've been struggling to process this for a week owing to dark halos presumably caused by a mismatch in star sizes between the narrow band and broad band channels.  I've managed to tame the halos to a degree but at the cost of introducing more prominent stars from the broadband data being added to the NB luminance.  Still I've learnt a bit more about Pixinsight and about my own processing limitations along the way.  I consider this still to be a work in progress as the stars still seem to overpower the image but I need a break from it for a while so for the time being here it is warts and all.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

[xtreemchaos]

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

[Dave grim]

Very nice Mike

[kalasinman]

I'd be proud of that. Congrats.

[laudropb]

Very nice. Thanks for posting.

[Tzitzis]

Great pic! Keep up the good work! :)

[Mike Hawtin]

Cheers Chaps, thanks for taking the time to comment.

Mike