The Lobster and the bubble

[Stuf1978]

This was taken over Friday and Monday night and was a result of a total of 9.5 hours of narrowband data and 15 minutes of broadband data for the stars. All data was stacked and preprocessed in Siril and finished of in Photoshop. Taken from my bortle class 8 back garden 😀

115x300 second lights (narrowband)
27 x 30 second lights (broadband)
William Optics Redcat V1.5 
ZWO ASI294MC PRO @ unity gain, -10°C 
Optolong L-eXtreme 
Astro Essentials UV/IR cut 
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro 
Skywatcher 50ED guidescope 
ZWOASI120MM guide camera 

[MartinB]

Excellent dramatic image.  Nice colours, a tad over saturated for me but that is purely personal.  The bubble and is just starting to burn out which is a bit of a shame.  Isn't it wonderful what NB can do under our dreadful skies.

[Stuf1978]

23 hours ago, MartinB said:

Excellent dramatic image.  Nice colours, a tad over saturated for me but that is purely personal.  The bubble and is just starting to burn out which is a bit of a shame.  Isn't it wonderful what NB can do under our dreadful skies.

Thanks, yeah I had trouble stopping the bubble and ngc 7538 particularly burning out as they really are rather bright. Toning them down left the remainder of the image lacking a bit punch. May have to go back to it and do some selective masking to try and tone those two areas down a tad. Completely agree about the power of narrowband 😃