Pacman interior

[drjolo]

I captured data to this image in October last year, seeing was decent, but transparency not so well. Despite over 8 hours of narrowband subframes the outcome was a little bit disappointing for me. But after three months I got back to this data and eventually processed it. I wanted to have some contrasty nebula interior with well defined Bok globules, but it turned out to some dim and elusive nebulosity instead  

14,15.10.2018, Meade ACF 10", AP CCDT67, EQ6, QHY163M, exposure: HO 150:100 x2 minutes, RGB 50:30:40 x30 seconds, seeing good, transparency average.

Thanks for watching!

[john2y]

This is some incredible detail. Well done!

[alacant]

1 hour ago, drjolo said:

contrasty nebula interior with well defined Bok globules

Hi. Great shot.

Maybe try deconvolution? The StarTools algorithm is particularly good since you an apply -and unapply- it anywhere in the workflow.

HTH

[drjolo]

Thanks! I tried deconvolution in Pixinsight, but it did not made significant improvement till the moment the image start to become noisy. Overall SNR is probably too low and I would need more subframes (like twice as much) to achieve better result.

[gorann]

Really nice! I like the colours and the misty feeling. Also a lot of detail and with the seeing I have had here recently I would not even be close to that level of detail.