SH2-174 Valentine's Rose Nebula

[ampleamp]

I have had two goes at this very feint object over the last few months, once from home in limited skies, and once from my remote imaging setup at PixelSkies. I'm sure you can guess which image came from which location.

Home - four hours of Ha and O111 data, plus some lum, all form a widefield setup

PixelSkies - eighteen hours of Ha and O111, from a medium focal length setup, plus consistently darker skies 😉

The home image was challenging in that despite being at a much higher altitude, my sky was just never good enough for such a dim object and whatever the rights and wrongs of processing, there really is no substitute for dark skies and time.

thanks for looking

[simmo39]

Nice, not seen this before.