Melotte 15 The Heart the Heart

[Laurin Dave]

Further to my post of this on 1 December I gathered more data so I now have 30x600s 5hrs of Ha, Sii and Oiii and 10x120s RGB. Three versions produced this time. Left image HaLum Red 50%Ha 50%Sii, Green 20%Ha 80%Oiii, Blue 100%Oiii, middle image HaLum over Pixinsight NBRGB combination with Ha to red and Oiii to green and blue, right image HaLumSHO.  Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.  Equipment Esprit 150ED, AZEQ-6, ASI1600mm Astrodon 5nm Ha, Sii and Oiii, ZWO RGB.  May still be a bit dusty for some

Thanks for looking 

Dave

 

[Adreneline]

I like dusty. I can't imagine space is without dust. I'm sure the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is at much at play in space as it is in my study - dust everywhere!

Very nice although I personally prefer the first one.

Adrian

[Seanelly]

I'll take the one on the right. It's got a great vitalty to it!

[carastro]

They are all nice, but I'd try to adjust the contrast a little, it looks very slight opaque.

Carole 

[Laurin Dave]

4 hours ago, carastro said:

They are all nice, but I'd try to adjust the contrast a little, it looks very slight opaque.

Carole 

You're right Carol... hopefully this is a bit crisper. Certainly looks so in Photoshop on my Mac, although not so much a difference on my windows laptop for some reason.

Dave