M1, Crab Nebula

[lukebl]

Hi all,

I had this go at the Crab nebula last night, just using HA and Oiii filters, with the green channel synthesised with Noel's Actions in Photoshop.

12 x 600s exposures each of HA and Oiii, SXVF-H9 camera, 250mm f/4.7 Newtonian. Stacked in DSS and tweaked in Photoshop. First proper attempt with my new Off-axis guiding setup and I'm quite pleased with the guiding accuracy. Certainly better than I was managing with a separate guidescope.

[StarRaver]

stunning shot Luke, I must have a try at this sometime in the future, you should be very pleased with the results

[appyaardvark]

Great image Luke

[Gina]

Very nice indeed - good colours and lovely and sharp

[MikeD]

Great stuff, very nice detail.

Mike.

[lukebl]

Thanks for all the comments. I just realised that focus was a bit out on the HA channel, so I re-jigged the image just using the Oiii for the luminance. So, although it's a bit noisy, I think it shows a lot more fine detail now.

[VigdisVZ]

Nice contrasting colored regions and lovely detail. Good job!

[Tim]

Nice Luke, the Crab is a favourite of mine, I was also imaging it last night

It might be worth you having a play with the colour palette used and swap the assignments about a bit, there are over three levels of emission in the red wavelengths alone with the crab, not to mention the broadband cloud at the front, it is sometimes surprising what detail comes out under different colour schemes.

At any rate, its already a fine image, very nicely done.

Cheers

Tim

[ollypenrice]

That's worked out very well indeed.

Olly