Cone and Christmas Tree

[al-alami]

I believe this is my absolute favourite image I have taken so far! 

I never thought I would enjoy HaRGB this much!

 

NOTE: My apologies, I had to correct the exposure times. They original ones were taken from a test I did on the image before I started working on it.  OPS ?

 

Telescope: Skywatcher 130PDS
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Camera: QHY 163M
Filters: Ha + R + G + B 
Total integration time: 14 hours 15 minutes
Exposure:

Ha:
32 X 512 sec
Red:
91 X 128 sec
Green:
91 X 128 sec
Blue
91 X 128 sec

[tonylumley]

I would be mighty proud of that too !! al-alami, 

 

[MarsG76]

That looks great... what I find amazing is that the exposure time is less than 11 minutes....

 

[al-alami]

10 hours ago, MarsG76 said:

That looks great... what I find amazing is that the exposure time is less than 11 minutes....

 

I guess you can blame an f/5 scope and a very sensitive CMOS camera for that :p

[Jkulin]

1 hour ago, al-alami said:

I guess you can blame an f/5 scope and a very sensitive CMOS camera for that

And probably your Bortle 1/2 Skies helped a bit as well ?

[al-alami]

19 minutes ago, Jkulin said:

And probably your Bortle 1/2 Skies helped a bit as well ?

Don't say that .... we're coming up on the "I can't image because there is too much sand in the air"

[souls33k3r]

11 minutes? ? NO WAY! That's an exceptional image there Fakhri

[al-alami]

okay, I seem to have a mistake .... ops, actually, major ops

I copy pasted the time from my Facebook and it seems I got them from the wrong picture.

 

Am sooooo embarrassed.

 

 

[souls33k3r]

8 minutes ago, al-alami said:

okay, I seem to have a mistake .... ops, actually, major ops

I copy pasted the time from my Facebook and it seems I got them from the wrong picture.

 

Am sooooo embarrassed.

 

 

Don't sweat it buddy. I see you've corrected the total integration time and also the sub counts so it's all good.

Nonetheless, it's still a cracking image

[Jkulin]

Don't worry we all do that and it's a cracking image,

Just grabbed the details off your page: -

Telescope: Skywatcher 130PDS
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Camera: QHY 163M
Filters: Ha + R + G + B
Total integration time: 14 hours 15 minutes
Exposure:
Ha:
32 X 512 sec
Red:
91 X 128 sec
Green:
91 X 128 sec
Blue
91 X 128 sec

Hope that helps?

NB Sorry just seen that you corrected it.

[al-alami]

I guess I was in a rush to share it

[Jkulin]

Its a really lovely image, processed nicely, just a touch blue to the stars.

[MarsG76]

I see you correct s the time... 14 hours or 11 minutes, it's still a great image.

[al-alami]

Just now, MarsG76 said:

I see you correct s the time... 14 hours or 11 minutes, it's still a great image.

Only a slight difference ?

[MarsG76]

1 hour ago, al-alami said:

Only a slight difference ?

True true ?