IC1318 Butterfly nebula - A total mix of data!

[swag72]

Last year when I tackled the Butterfly nebula with the TMB152 it took 6 panes..... I really did mean to collect the OIII and SII as well so that I could make a nice colour image, but who was I trying to kid... The Ha alone was 48 hours worth. As a result, I left it mono with the idea to collect the SII and OIII once the short focal length scopes were up and running. Fast forward to a week or so ago and the SII and OIII piled in at 330mm so only a single frame was needed. A nice quick way to get some colour into some nice resolution data.

Something from my usual colours, I was quite surprised to see so much blue in here as I often think that the blue is lacking in many of the versions I see.... so I left it in there. 

Details:

Mount: Mesu 200 / EQ8
Camera: QSI683 with 3nm Astrodon filters
Scope: TMB 152/1200 for the Ha and Tak FSQ85 0.73x for the SII and OIII

48 hours of Ha data in a 6 pane mosaic all 1800s, then SII 15x1800s and OIII 13x1800s totalling 62 hours in total.

The registration between the two different focal length data was done with APP as was the original mosaic build. Also, I used the channel combination to lower the dominance of the Ha data, so that the colours were pretty much right from the off, without having to do much colour select jiggery pokery in PS

You can see a larger version on my website here as well as the original 6 pane mosaic breakdown.

 

[peter shah]

Another fine image Sara....you've managed to combine data from the two scopes really well. Tight clean image.....nice!

[carastro]

That puts a really new perspective on this target Sara, don't usually see the various components so clearly defined.  Great work, though I do envy you being able to take so many hours of data.  No hope from here.  Clouds, LP, restricted FOV from home at least.  

Carole 

[StargeezerTim]

That is a work of art... sumptuous.

[Thalestris24]

Awesome!

[Filroden]

Now that's what the Gotham skyline should look like! That's an amazing image.

[swag72]

Thanks to you all for looking and commenting   It was quite fun to work on the data with such different focal lengths.

[RichLD]

Brilliant image Sara, that will make a lovely print! 

[Barry-Wilson]

Exquisite at this resolution Sara. A sublime image deserving of the dedication needed to collect the data. Congratulations.

[steppenwolf]

Very delicately done, Sara and it looks very attractive in that colour palette.

[sloz1664]

Superb image Sara. I'm glad the blue came through as it has, because it really makes this image.

Steve

[Adreneline]

To quote my 16 month old granddaughter - "Wow!"

A really stunning image Sara.

Thank you for inspiring.

Adrian

[assouptro]

I am inspired!

that’s an incredible image Sara.

I can only hope that one day I may have the equipment and time to attempt something like this !?

Thank you for sharing

Bryan

[MikeODay]

Lovely image Sara, thanks for sharing all your hard work.

[swag72]

Thank you all for your comments - I really do appreciate them, especially as this is something of a different rendition from my usual  I guess there are times when we just need to run with the data listen to what it's telling us and not bludgeon it to death to achieve what we thought we'd see