DWB 111 - The Propeller nebula in SHO

[emyliano2000]

We had quite a few clear night in the last few weeks and I managed to finish capturing and processing the Propeller nebula.

16x600sec Ha with the 130PDS and 78x300sec in Ha with the AT106

29x600sec Oiii with the AT106

30x600sec Sii with the AT106

19 hours total integration time.

Emil

[Allinthehead]

That's 19 hours well spent. Great image.

[ApophisAstros]

Great image, especially the colourful starfield, any chance of a few tips for the star colour i always struggle,

I only have Astroart and Photoshop cs2

Roger

[emyliano2000]

7 minutes ago, apophisOAS said:

Great image, especially the colourful starfield, any chance of a few tips for the star colour i always struggle,

I only have Astroart and Photoshop cs2

Roger

Most of the times I invert the image and do a HLVG (Hasta La Vista Green) to remove some of the magenta. I then return it to normal, select the stars using colour range, expand by 2, feather and play with the hue and saturation to get them close to what I like. After that I use the Increase the star colour action from the Noel Carboni's Astronomy tools a few times and the Reduce Star size action from Annie's Astro tools.

I hope this helps.

Emil