C19 - Cocoon Nebula Ha

[davedownsouth]

This is a work-in-progress, but attached are the Ha images of Cadwell 19 - The Cocoon Nebula processed in PI.  11 x 15 minutes Binned 1x1.  Weather not looking good for the rest of the week, but hoping to add more shots to it soon, just not sure if this should be other Narrow bands or just RGB .  Any advice?

[xtreemchaos]

nice image mate.thanks for sharing..charl..

[Gutross]

do both, and see what turns out better

[swag72]

The amount of Ha in and around this target is really quite surprising. I think I'd get RGB from that start and consider adding the Ha to the red channel and see how that turns out.

[ollypenrice]

I agree with Sara. This is a cracker in HaRGB. 

Olly

[ultranova]

wow nice detail, Going to be good what ever

you add, but in prefrence rgb

Paul

[davedownsouth]

Glad the general opinion is to go with RGB, otherwise I would have had to change filters in my Wheel . From the forecasts I my have to wait until next Saturday though

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[laudropb]

Lovely image. Thanks

[davedownsouth]

So, I finally got round to grabbing some RGB shots (13 x 5 minutes of each at 2x2 Binning) and attached are my attempts at processing with PI.  Simple RGB combination and processing was pretty straight forward, but I found adding in the Ha shots pretty tricky.  Think I prefer the HaRGB, but to be honest, I was hoping it would be a little better considering all of the extra shots involved with this picture.  This is definitely (or atleast most likely), down to my processing (or lack of them) skill with PI .  Anyway, here are the two images, all comments welcomed: -

RGB

HaRGB

[Gutross]

A beauty!

[Astromaster130]

Awesome capture✨