Town Center Elephant

[MattJenko]

I have moved from a lovely darkish rural home to a limited sky view place just off Cheltenham town center, so my imaging has taken a turn for the more challenging. Seeing a half saturated background using a R filter after 120 seconds is depressing, but narrowband to the rescue. Here is an effort on the Elephant's trunk. I struggled to process this, as LP data is much harder than dark sky data. I have had it easy for too long!!!

TS60ED, HEQ5, ASI1600. 50 x 5min Ha, 22 x 5min Sii, 30 x 5min Oiii and some very over saturated RGB for the stars, no more than an hour total for them, as it was pretty bright...

 

[Davey-T]

Welcome to orange sky land Matt, still a very nice image.

On the bright side you'll be handily placed to attend the SGL star party 

Dave

[MattJenko]

Much as I would love to come to the SGL star party, if plans work out, this Cheltenham visit will be a short term thing unfortunately for star party action.

[StargeezerTim]

Nice image Matt... commiserations on losing your dark sky, but you can look forward to developing your processing skills even further to compensate... and spending more on filters .

[PatrickGilliland]

New challenges eh, what made you do that. Nice town and nice work there.