NGC1333 - Balrog Reprocessed

[Stub Mandrel]

It's fascinating how your processing skills can improve over time. I went back to data collected over three sessions   2016 to January 2019.

The best data was 71  2-minute frames from 2016, the 30 later, guided, 5 minute subs didn't seem as good. An attempt at combined processing in 2019 wasn't very good, but I've tried again. I don't think this is too bad for a DSLR image, although the background is a bit mottled and  with 5 hours of data I had hoped it would show a bit more! I'm not convinced the 2016 image doesn't show more detail, despite being noisier.

 

2016  only image:

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by Stub Mandrel

[bdlbug]

 

love the name, its such a foreboding presence, I think a Lord of the Rings name is very fitting

For me 5hrs on this target is just the very start, its really very dim and difficult from our UK back gardens,  You're right to think more subs needed - I reckon you need double the sub time and probably more with a DSLR as I imaged NGC1333 recently with a dedicated CMOS camera, ASI1600, and had over 10hrs of capture and had to remove over half as luminosity just gets over whelmed by light pollution from my back garden.

Massive step up from the 2016 version - another session on this target in 2022 then

 

[astro mick]

Well done Neil,nice one.

Mick.