emyliano2000 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 (edited) My first finished target from my new back garden. Happy to be back to DSO imaging after a 6 months break. With the sky being much better than my previous location in Bushey, I went for a broadband target but having the Dengel-Hartl 5 planetary nebula in the frame too, I also shot some Ha and Oiii to make it pop. Date: 25.08.2022 to 16.09.2022 Location: Hemel Hempstead, bortle 5 Luminance: 100x300sec Ha: 50x300sec Oiii: 50x180sec Red: 50x180sec Green: 50x180sec Blue: 50x180sec Total integration time 22 hours and 30 minutes Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2022 More details on astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/ptabzb/0/ I hope you like it. Emil Edited September 26, 2022 by emyliano2000 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollypenrice Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Lovely crisp, clean image, Emil. I like literally everything about it but the golden star colour might be a favourite aspect. I'd call that perfect processing. Olly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emyliano2000 Posted September 26, 2022 Author Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, ollypenrice said: Lovely crisp, clean image, Emil. I like literally everything about it but the golden star colour might be a favourite aspect. I'd call that perfect processing. Olly Thank you very much Olly, much appreciated, I'm glad you like it 😊 Emil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorann Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Like it all a lot, and you really managed to capture that rather elusive planetary nebula next to it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien 13 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Lovely image but am a bit confused by the star spikes when only using a refractor.. Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_taurus83 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Excellent, as usual! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emyliano2000 Posted September 26, 2022 Author Share Posted September 26, 2022 22 minutes ago, Alien 13 said: Lovely image but am a bit confused by the star spikes when only using a refractor.. Alan Thanks Alan, I'm a bit of a sucker for spikes and I tend to add them to some photos that I think would benefit from them. I've never been able to get the results I wanted from any of the newtonians that I had in the past so I am now only using refractors but my love for spikes didn't die. I was actually thinking of fixing some wires in front of the lenses 😂 Emil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorann Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 I hate star spikes, especially when processing. After all they are artifacts, but we all have our preferences. Love the image! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emyliano2000 Posted September 26, 2022 Author Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 minute ago, gorann said: I hate star spikes, especially when processing. After all they are artifacts, but we all have our preferences. Love the image! I know some people do hate them, my love for them is probably coming from the HST images that I was crazy about when I was younger. Emil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorann Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Talking about stars, this is really an image that could benefit from starless processing of the nebulosity. Did you try that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emyliano2000 Posted September 26, 2022 Author Share Posted September 26, 2022 Just now, gorann said: Talking about stars, this is really an image that could benefit from starless processing of the nebulosity. Did you try that? I did, yes but I didn't want to reduce the number of stars. I do it on the narrowband images but not too much on the broadband ones. And on top of that, cleaning the artefacts left over after the removal is something that I don't find pleasing. Emil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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