The Eagle and it's Pillars- HaRGB 6hrs (A different approach)

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

Greetings yall!

The time has come. I have traded in my mount and my apo and will be getting an entirely new setup. I am still keeping my ATIK 414ex though... it is truly a phenomenal camera.So with that being said.. re-processing it is!

ANYWAYS, this data is from 8 months ago but I reprocessed it in PI and it came out WAY better than my last version. This is 6.3 hours of exposure time from bortle 4 skies. I had some serious stacking artifacts in the Ha channel that I didnt notice until I started stretching he image and doing some deconvolution. I could always go back in DSS and fix it but since this is just a new rendition and not new data I'm going to keep it as it.  Hope you guys enjoy

William Optics 102mm
ATIK 414ex
Orion Atlas
Astrodon RGB

[Ronclarke]

An awesome image, I like that very much. Well done 

[MarsG76]

Very nice image... I like the composition.

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

Thank you all. When I integrated the Ha data I got a ton of “brown” colored dust around the edges of the Nebula instead of the usual “salmon” color you get with Ha data. So, I decided to keep it that way. Not sure I’ve seen it presented like this before 

[glowingturnip]

is that mirror-image reversed ?  Either yours is, or mine is ;-)

Nice pic, interesting to see those colours

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

Seems like I always forget to fix the damned orientation? jk, actually.. I took this image from the other side of the pillars. I live in an entirely different solar system, you wouldn’t understand. ???