Cone & Flaming Star over 2 nights

[Budgie1]

With my FOV from the garden, I'm starting to run out of nebula targets now, but I managed a couple of clear nights on the Cone & Flaming Star. I imaged the Cone until it went into the trees and then switched to the Flaming Star for rest of the night, over both nights.

The Cone is 4h 52m of 240s subs and the Flaming Star is 5h 12m at the same exposure.

The kit:

• SW Evostar 80ED DS Pro with 0.85 FR/FF
• ZWO ASI294MC Pro, Gain 200, Offset 30, cooled to -10°C
• Askar Duo-Band filter
• Rowan belt converted HEQ5
• Captured using APT & PHD2
• Stacked & processed in PI with enhancement using Topaz AI

C & C's welcomed.

[Sunshine]

WOW! they are stunning! my favourite is the first, the contrast against the inky black and detail is breathtaking.

[powerlord]

very nice detail in the foxy fur - really brings out the furriness. 🤩

[Budgie1]

I added some more data to the Cone Nebula last night, only this time it was standard OSC with only the UV/IR cut filter, to get some RGB stars.

I stacked the NB & RGB versions separately in PI and took them both through the workflow to the get them non-linier (stretched) stage. I then removed the stars using StarNet2, keeping the RGB stars for adding in later and combined them with PixelMath using 60% NB & 40% RGB. Then went on to use Curves etc. 

The final thing was to take the Luminance from the NB version and add that as a luminance layer to add detail. This added a bit of noise so I put the image through Topaz AI De-Noise before adding the RGB stars back in. 

I'm not sure this is the correct way to combine NB & RGB versions from a OSC camera, but it seemed to work okay and I'm going to have a play with some other combinations to see what I can come up with.

Here's the result, with a close-up of the main nebulosity.