VDB 141: "The Ghost Nebula"

[Pompey Monkey]

This is a crop of the Ghost Nebula.

I was inspired by Adam Block's image of this spooky target (Google it), and I've had a go at recreating it with our more modest, albeit well sited, equipment.

There is much more that could be done to improve it, I'm sure, but for an 81 mm 'frac, I'm happy to get this much detail!

40+ hours L

4 hours ish each for RGB

2X drizzle for the L

I must give credit to:

Adam Block's tutorials, especially for the LRGB combination;

Russel Crowman's NoiseXterminator;

And, last but not least, the excellent local normalisation that's built into PI's WBPP.

Full res on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/o9cr8a/

Captured with @coatesg

Comments encouraged!

 

[Pompey Monkey]

I think that maybe this crop (with some careful work) looks much more dramatic.

[Mandy D]

7 minutes ago, Pompey Monkey said:

I think that maybe this crop (with some careful work) looks much more dramatic.

Yes, definitely liking this version. It is beautiful! Congratulations on a fantastic result from many hours of imaging.