The Iris and Ghost nebula in LRGB

[swag72]

I have had this one on the backburner for a few weeks. I collected the Luminance as a 2 pane mosaic with the QSI690 and finished off the colour with a Starlight Express Trius 25C.

This is totally different to my usual narrowband images and also using a OSC for the colour has been ............ different! So I'd sure welcome any comments any one has regarding the processing or data. 

Details:
M: Avalon Linear fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ 85
C: QSI690ws-g with Lum filter and Starlight Express Trius SX25C OSC for the colour.

Luminance - 2 pane mosaic 54x600s in total
Colour - 100x600s
Totalling 25 hours and 40 minutes

NGC7023 and VdB 141 (Iris nebula and Ghost nebula) by Sara Wager, on Flickr
 

[JemC]

Can't help you with the data process,

different to your usual  your usual is always awesome, as is this image,

Regards

[swag72]

Many thanks for looking and commenting - Glad that you like it

This was a VERY different beast to process than what I am used to for sure...........

[iksose7]

Looks like you have a bunch of faint dust lying around the field Sara, if you use Pixinsight i could point you towards a tutorial on how to use residual layers to bring all that to the surface?

Callum

[swag72]

Thanks Callum - Unless the PI tutorial is all on default settings and is easy to do then it will make my head explode!!

[manoss27]

Stunning field Sara!!

[toxic]

Bahh too many stars !!  ,  not really Sara it is Awesome as usual.

[xtreemchaos]

outstanding image as allways,fantastic detail and colour.thanks for sharing..charl..

[theo]

Lovely work Sara. You're not on you own with those thoughts on PI by the way!!

Pete

[ollypenrice]

NIce to see you working in broadband, Sara. Good job done. This dusty stuff, especially the Ghost, is very faint indeed and you have it nicely separated from the background both in brightness and in colour.

Olly

[davew]

I'm a sucker for a bit of dust and I like looking at good images of it. The colour is lovely and it has a 3D effect that I like.

Bringing out dust detail is a major goal for this region but it has to be balanced with the subtleties of brown gunge and that three dimensional feeling.

Like it,

Dave.

[Zakalwe]

Absolutely stunning. What a wonderful image Sara.

Watching your progress and improvements since you started this gig has been an absolute inspiration!

[MartinFransson]

Looks like you have a bunch of faint dust lying around the field Sara, if you use Pixinsight i could point you towards a tutorial on how to use residual layers to bring all that to the surface?

Callum

Would you mind pointing someone else towards that tutorial? [emoji4] I could really use that.

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[MartinFransson]

Well, I liked it on your Facebook page and I like it here [emoji4] It's really a beautiful image!

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[swag72]

Thanks very much all for your kind words. This has been interesting to use a OSC solely for the colour detail and a mono for the Luminance.

[Fay]

Beautiful image, Sara, so much to look at, and really nicely done

Fay

[swag72]

Thanks Fay - A break from the norm has worked out OK!

[swag72]

Larger res image has now been uploaded to my website and can be seen here

[strutsinaction]

The hires image is superb. The Iris is showing lot of depth, almost 3D like. One of the best I've seen. Congrats on yet another stunning image.

Regards

John