Heart Nebula RASA8/QHYy268c/NBZ

[tomato]

The (sort of) clear nights are still with me so I'm continuing to look around for large, bright Ha targets before astro darkness returns and I can get back to imaging galaxies. So here is the Heart Nebula, 56 x 3 mins with the RASA8/QHY268c/NBZ combined with around 45 minutes from last year using the same set up. Two versions, the red dominated original and a pseudo HST palette for the second, making a blue channel by combining the r and g channels (0.6xr+0.4xg) using PixelMath in PI. I discovered the update to StarXterminator using the unscreen stars option, seems to do a better job.

Thanks for looking

[Tommohawk]

Very nice images!

No objection to false colour, but cosmetically I prefer the first one FWIW.