Narrowband Heart nebula (IC1805)

[Martin-Devon]

Last Friday night was just perfect, no Moon, no clouds and no wind - a very rare situation for South West of the UK. Whilst waiting for Orion to peep up, I took some narrowband data on the Heart nebula, just 8x10 min of H-alpha & 8x10 min of OIII. Processed in Hubble palette, and the colours seemed to come out OK, just wondering now if I should have added SII as well... 

Thanks for looking,

Martin

[nmoushon]

Thats very nice for only 160min of data. I don't see why adding some SII when your waiting for your main target to come up. Will clean up the noise some and add some more color.

[sologuitarist61]

Absolutely fantastic!

[Steve 1962]

Stunning Martin - nice to see you getting out too!

[cfpendock]

That is very nice, and crisply processed.

Chris

[Uranium235]

Quite excellent, I rather like the colour scheme too.

[swag72]

Love it, love the colours, a super crisp image - Bravo  

[Epicycle]

That's a most impressive image; it's a bit surprising that the detail is so crisp with so few 10m subs!

[Tom OD]

Great 3D look to it. I prefer that colour to the regular 3 colour hubble palette.

[Herrman]

Breathtaking image! May I ask what camera/scope combination you used?

All the best,

Herrman

[x6gas]

Absolutely stunning, Martin, with terrific contrast and great colours.

I've just posted my version with 12 hours of data and it's not a patch on your rendition...

Congratulations - that's some very fine work, sir!

[LeeWilky]

Beautiful

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[nvchad2]

That is an amazing shot.  You take shots like that while outside my house there is a thick layer of cloud.  Not that I could ever capture that with my current set up.  Its definitely true that Astrophotography is addictive and hard on the wallet . . .

[Mark72]

Outstanding image Martin, hope you can get in Orion something similar.

Mark

[Quatermass]

A stunner that one great job

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[Martin-Devon]

Many thanks for the feedback from everybody - it's really appreciated.

Hermann: you asked about scope/camera, these were as detailed in my signature. I use the reducer with my scope to get a wider field and here the Tak 106 works at F 3.6, so it's really great at hoovering up the photons. I only have just under 3 hours of data in total though, and it shows. There's no substitute for longer exposures; you can sometimes get "passable" images in 30 minutes if you want to, but to get depth of quality, reduce noise even further & tease out those faint details, the longer overall capture times are really necessary and this is where my image could stil be improved upon. 

Martin