Melotte 15 in Ha - 22 Sept 2019

[geoflewis]

This image was something of an afterthought as my intention initially was a single test shot before packing up at about 1:30am, but I liked what I saw so kept going for about 2 hours until the clouds got me.

The below final image comprises 1.5 hours data (18x300sec Bin2) captured with my QSI583wsg-5 and Astronomic 6nm Ha filte, through my C14 with Optec telecompressor lens in train.

I've just purchased Noel's actions to help with my very limited PS processing experience, so definitely was fumbling about in the dark. Calibation, grading, alignment, stacking and initial post processing was using Images Plus, then into PS for final tweaks.

I have very little experience processing mono images, so all critique is very welcome.

Cheers, Geof

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by geoflewis