first light with Sii filter on M1 nebula

[mikey2000]

Here's my first SHO hubble pallette pic!  my ZWO Sii filter arrived at Christmas time, to complete the Ha Oiii Sii trinity.      I found Sii doesn't add much to a lot of things so far but my first target was the crab nebula.  What an explosion of colour!

200PDS, EQ6-R, ASI1600MM-pro, Zwo filters, about 1hr of each.

 

[Craney]

It really is a riot.   Great picture.    I always keep coming back to it.

Did you see that animation that shows the actual expansion over 50 years or so ?

[assouptro]

Lovely crisp crab!

it’s sharp and detailed yet you’ve kept it natural looking

thanks for sharing 

Bryan

[Hughsie]

Boom. Lovely shot. 
 

When I worked on my same image I ended up in one place . Now I’m revisiting again and I’m seeing all different colours.

Thats art for you. 

[ApophisAstros]

Great detail , well done.

What are the specs of your filters? as i will have 3 NB filters soon.

Roger

[MartinB]

That's terrific.  Nicely detailed.  This is the colour you get with the Hubble Palette which is completely different from the colour of the classic NASA image!

[mikey2000]

Yep, it's my attempt at a Hubble Palette.  Worked out OK here 🙂 thanks for the kind words.

I went looking for the crab nebula timelapse/animation.  It really is an explosion! Mindboggling scales and distances... (again, AP has made me wonderstruck at the epic sizes involved..)

 

My filters are 36mm unmounted ZWO ones, apparently optimised for my ASI1600.  I'm sure more expensive brands are better.  FWIW, I believe mine are 7nm filters.  The Oiii and Sii are the mark 2 versions, allegedly bette at reducing halos around bright stars.  My Ha is Mk1 version and definitely gives big halos around bright stars.  In the pic above, none are really bright enough to show the effect.  I'll certainly post more and I'm sure you will notice the halos...

[MarkAR]

Very nice, lovely colours.