NGC2175 - Monkey Head Nebula

[Miguel1983]

Hi,

Semi clear night yesterday, until some fog rolled in by 23.30h.

I managed to gather 45 180sec subs of witch 2 bad (planes).

Used the regular gear and the CLS CCD filter because it was already in place from last time ? , lazy, but it was a last minute decision to put the gear outside.

So, 2h9min light , 20 dark , 100 flat and 100 bias and post process in PS CS6.

*Edit* after PS i loaded the image in Corel Aftershot Pro 3 for some noise reduction, as i find it's beter or more  effective than wat i can do in PS.

 

Streching the image in PS quickly resulted in a reddish overexposed background, i don't have the astro-plug-in's, so i used a technique that i picked up from Nebula Photo's on YouTube, it may not be perfect, but it helpes a lot.

I did not manage to capture the other colors, besides fifty shades of red, that you find in other images of this object, probably due to exposure time and filter choise, i'm goinging to look into that.

 

[alacant]

Hi. Lovely delicate shot with nice stars.

22 minutes ago, Miguel1983 said:

i'm goinging to look into that.

I think the colour will work if you leave the black point more to the right and take down the red. I had a go -star colour is beginning to appear- but the jpg doesn't have much information. It also takes a lot of the nebula with it; layers?

HTH

[Miguel1983]

53 minutes ago, alacant said:

Hi. Lovely delicate shot with nice stars.

I think the colour will work if you leave the black point more to the right and take down the red. I had a go -star colour is beginning to appear- but the jpg doesn't have much information. It also takes a lot of the nebula with it; layers?

HTH

Hi, yes tried that to, but as you mention, you lose a lot of nebula