Through the gaps in the clouds

[recceranger]

First serious attempt at these DSO. I’m in a heavily LP area so rely on the L-eXtreme. Tried shooting between the gaps in cloud cover but they aren’t too bad. Bit of noise due to not getting enough data and as I’m using a D7500, but I’m happy with results. 

[astro mick]

These are cracking images,under difficult conditions,exerllent.

Mick.

[recceranger]

Cheers Mick and have a great Christmas buddy. 👍

[MartinB]

Nice work!  The Ha nebulosity looks terrific.  The OIII is being swamped a little and I wonder if this could be corrected by slightly heavier stretching of G and B channels during the inital process.

[recceranger]

Good advice Martin, I’ll give that ago. I was wondering why I wasn’t getting much OIII. 👍👍

[recceranger]

This is one I took during summer and managed to stretch the B&G channel a little more to bring up the OIII, but I thing the Veil is a classic example of Nebula that has a distinct line of separation between OIII and Ha. The Heart and Rosette are mustard! I might have a crack at the Packman Nebula as it's a bit more forgiving. Having said that, these are my first serious foray into DSO imaging and considering I'm dealing with floodlights from a local Home Bargains store, I'm really chuffed.