The flaming star nebula (I think)

[alan potts]

Shot this the other week and was not so impressed with the effort after 90mins at F7, but using another scope at a faster F4.3 I was surprised how much more was there and will try and add to it. This is just an hour with the Borg 77EDll, which is not spaced correctly yet but reasonable. I used that old wonder material, duct tape. This is 20x 3 mins on a 183MC and not very well processed in PS.

It may well not even be focused well, I hate this focuser and wish I knew where I could get a Feather Touch that is if  one works with this reducer.

Here is the 90mins with a 071 and 115mm apo at f7

Alan

[HunterHarling]

It doesn't look too bad. I would do this one in narrowband, though and add rgb for the stars. The stars are too bright for the nebula to do it in rgb in my oppinion. Adding 5-7 hours of rgb might look nice though.

[ollypenrice]

19 hours ago, HunterHarling said:

It doesn't look too bad. I would do this one in narrowband, though and add rgb for the stars. The stars are too bright for the nebula to do it in rgb in my oppinion. Adding 5-7 hours of rgb might look nice though.

It's hard to keep the stars down in RGB for sure but you can make an understretched RGB to use as a vehicle for Ha to red and OIII to green and blue, adding the NB in blend mode Lighten in Ps. I think this is easier than trying to drop RGB stars into an HOO image.

I think the image is going well, Alan. You have the blue well separated from the red in the flaming star feature itself and that isn't always easy by any means.

Olly