Iris Nebula

[Yawning Angel]

I've been hoping to capture a 'good' Iris Nebula image for a few seasons now, with very little success.

This is as far as I've got so far this year, over 2 cloud truncated evenings:

APM 107x700mm + flattener / asi1600mm

5 x 300 Lum
5 x 300 Red
12 x 300 Green
12 x 300 Blue

Cropped the rough edges and battered to death in PixInsight. A couple of left over satellite or aircraft trails due to the thin stacks

[Sterrenland]

On 11/03/2022 at 17:13, Yawning Angel said:

Cropped the rough edges and battered to death in PixInsight.

Hahahahaha This made me laugh out loud...I know all about battering images to death in Pixinsight!

Quite like your image of the Iris...have been trying to get a decent shot of it myself, but have struggled. Maybe it's trying to balance the reflection nebula bit and the dust cloud bits that makes it so hard? Well done any way.

[Elp]

Good effort, I've been wanting to do this one for months, maybe my next project.

[Yawning Angel]

On 12/03/2022 at 19:35, Sterrenland said:

Well done any way

 

On 12/03/2022 at 20:20, Elp said:

Good effort

Thank you!