Yawning Angel

Had a fiddle: Removed the stars, ran some chrominance noise reduction on the starless image and gentle luminance noise reduction on the stars then recombined Most noticeable in the more colourful orange stars, especially the large one SE of centre (12 monocerotis, I believe)

Thank for the positive comments! Yes please! Cloud dodging is a pain 😁

One hour each for Ha, Oiii and Sii (30 x 120sec) Skywatcher Evostar 80ED x0.85 / asi1600mm / iOptron CEM60 It was a struggle to get meaningful Sii data, battling the full moon over new year - but I'm fairly happy with how it's turned out

Cheers everyone! I think the exposures where 5ms, with the gain pushed a little to give 60 - 70% histogram. 500 frames per stack and 50% stacked as it seemed very stable

This is a 20 panel mosaic with an asi178mm / 80ed + 2.5x barlow, green filter. It was done as a test to see if the scope could stand the magnification...what do you think? Click through for the full size

It's clear as a bell, so why not! Lovely way to put 2020 to bed I think asi178mm / Evostar 80ED. Best 25% of 500 per channel (RGB)

Thanks! It doesn’t look like I’ll be adding to it any time soon 🤪❄️

Last time I tried this, I managed a handful of minutes of Ha, then the weather said "nope" for so long, I moved elsewhere. Take 2 is getting there, with Ha and Oii but without any significant Sii contribution (for now). Once I have a full set as a first pass, I'll most likely try and rerun the set to double up on exposure time

Captured in IR-RGB around 5pm on Christmas eve. I hope everyone has a splendid holiday, however you are able to spend it

You’re welcome, and what a cracking shot!

Thank you all for the kind comments!

Good old M42, 1hr 17mins with an Evostar80 / asi1600mm @ 510mm and unity gain. Ha / Oiii / Sii Hubble(ish) palette in PixInsight, which didn’t seem too common a style for this target 🤔

Our constant nemesis 'clouds' where fighting to stop me, but with several breaks I grabbed just enough subs to make something presentable. 30 x 1min Ha, 30 x 1min Oiii and just 17 x 1min Sii (clouds won the battle on that one!). Darks, but no flats yet! Hopefully I can add to this in the near future...I haven't offended the sky by buying any astronomy kit in ages, so fingers crossed! SW80ED / asi1600mm

Since we're swathed in cloud, anyone who'd like a crack at this data can download it and have a play : Google drive - 12gb! Folder contains the RGB and IR (ProPlanet 642 bp) raw SER files. Have fun! It'd be awesome so see other peoples results!

A lovely natural appearance! I’d be very please with that, bravo!

A happy accident, from the looks of that! Did you ever let it analyse the full 1000?

I'm surprised this has slipped passed without comment. What a wonderful image to scroll through! The Montes Alpes / Vallis Alpes area is especially striking, well done! If AS!3 is giving you a hard time, could you try AS!3, under WINE? You might also get Microsoft ICE running for the mosaicking

Love in! Especially the colour treatment!

A very nice image! Thank you for sharing

A tricky shot to pull off, well done!

A big thank you to everyone for their kind comments. It's a great boost and really appreciated!

This is a 2 panel mosaic of the full beaver / frosty moon. My asi178mm giving a little bit more than the asi1600 earlier.

Kind of you to say, Steve. Thank you!

This time I set up to do something other than the moon (and the scope is doing that job as I type). However, with such a glorious face on, I had to point her way briefly asi1600mm, L 25% of 1000 and RGB 25% of 500 each

Any time! I’m looking forward to your results 👍🏻