The Soul Nebula - Two Ways

[kirkster501]

First up, Soul Nebula - IC1848 - with 42 x 180s exposures on FSQ85 at native with QHY268C.  Almost full moon 90 degrees away on Wednesday 28th Oct 2020.  It needs much more data really.

 

Not had time to gather any narrowband and I don't as yet have the filter to do so.  So, as an experiment, I registered the Heart and Soul image taken with a Samyang 135mm and G2-8300 Ha 3nm Astrodon (at bottom) and threw that into it to create this.  I am not sure it has fully worked since the resolution with the Samyang is much less than with the FSQ85/QHY. 

The original Heart and Soul where I stole the Ha data from:

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by kirkster501

[ultranova]

Funny thing is i like the first image the most,

The wide field Ha second, 

Personally I feel sometimes less is more,

but beauty as they say is in the eye of the beholder.

Ether way nice images.

well done 

Paul 

 

[ollypenrice]

How about de-starring the low res data in Starnet++ before combining it? That might let you keep the smaller stars of the original while exploiting the Ha signal.

Olly

[kirkster501]

I like the top one best as well.  The Ha needs to be at the same res as the RGB really.  I need more data for it and an LExtreme filter. I'm not spending any more money though for a while on frivolous stuff in the current economy situation.

[messier 111]

incredibly beautiful, I prefer the second.