Elephant Trunk in BiColour

[DanL]

Well it's taken about 4 weeks to get done due to the awful weather, but I finally managed to do my first colour narrowband image! Elephant Trunk nebula in Ha and OIII (with a 60/40 red/blue synthetic green channel)

I'm happy with it as a first attempt but the bright moon didn't help much and I'm always very self critical of anything I try to process. Anyways, please offer any constructive criticism if you have any. Hints and tips to improve my processing are always welcome!

Moravian G2-8300, SW Esprit 80

26 x Ha (Astrodon 3nm) @ 1800s (Red channel)

18 x OIII (Astrodon 3nm) @ 1200s (Blue channel)

Thanks for looking,

Dan

[NigeB]

Dan,

I can't offer any hints or tips because I've never done narrowband imaging - though I'm very keen to start. And if I ever do, and the first results are even half as good as yours, I will be mightily happy. It is a thing of beauty - well done!

Nigel

[Ruud]

Hi Dan,

Looks great in the large version. It's a good quality image. Many thanks.

[laudropb]

Very nice image, well worth looking at the larger version.

[PeterCPC]

Lovely image.

Peter