IC1396

This narrow band image with an RGB starfield was created by mapping Red to Ha, Green to SII and Blue to OIII and represents about 16 hours imaging time. Straton was used for removing the narrowband stars before replacing them with the RGB starfield. The starfield blending was achieved by using PS Screen since I found that this method gave a much improved starfield compared to my previous technique of simply replacing the NB starfield via a RGB field via a NB star mask. I'd like to have captured more SII data but got fed up waiting for a clear sky. 

H:8; O: 12; S: 5 x 1800s. R:7; G:6 B:6 x 600s. DARKS: 30; BIAS:100; FLATS:40