Canadian-Swedish Heart Nebula

[gorann]

Yet another collaboration between Francois Theriault in New Brunswick, Canada and me. Francois is responsible for all the data and stacking while I did the Hubble Palette processing - partly using the Tone Mapping approach by J-P Metsavainio http://astroanarchy.blogspot.se/2014/04/tone-mapping-v20-my-lecture-at-neaic.html but going gently on the blurring.

Astrotech AT72ED refractor with SBIG ST8300M on a CGEM mount. Ha=14x600", OIII=16x600" bin 3x3, SII=15x600 bin 3x3. Baader filters. Sequence Generator Pro and Photoshop CS5.

I am new at narrowband processing so any comments and suggestions are most welcome.

 

[swag72]

I'm finding the halos around some of the stars quite a distraction if I'm honest - Especially those ones with the hard red edges in the middle of the nebula. A great target though, with lots going on and plenty of decent signal in all narrowband wavelengths

[gorann]

Sara, I kind of liked them when they turned up in processing but here is a version with less red halos

[swag72]

In my opinion only, I find that second edit much more pleasing and less distracting ...... goes to show that it's all down to personal taste  I'm sure someone will come along and prefer the first version

 

[wxsatuser]

Quite honestly don't like the red halos but nice second image.