NGC1499

[AMcD]

This one has been a real struggle.  I have extracted the best 15 hours or so of integrations from a total of a little over 21 hours in total but even then the data is not great.  Probably because of that, and my still evolving ability, the processing has been a real struggle as well. Indeed, it has felt like wrestling a bear (not that I have ever wrestled a bear). This is 15 hours 45 mins of 300 sec integrations taken using a QHY8 OSC and Optolong L-Extreme filter with a TS152 achromatic refractor on a Losmandy G11.  Acquired using SGPro and PHD2, stacked in DSS and processed with Adobe PS.  Moving on...

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[powerlord]

you did better than me, I gave up with Oiii and just made a false oiii channel out of sharpened/contrasted Ha for my 1499