IC443 Jellyfish Nebula in HOO

[mightymonoped]

Probably my last capture of the year last night.

Managed to grab about 1.5 hours worth of IC443 before it became obstructed. Stupidly didn't check the gain setting though (I'd been playing with Video settings on the ASIair when I was sorting the focuser. Doh!

That meant I had lights captured at a gain of 390. Couldn't calibrate out the Amp Glow with 120 Gain Darks so had to do a bit of faffing around in processing. Wasn't too bad by the time I had merged the 4 individual panes of both Ha and Oiii then recombining as HOO in Astro Pixel Processor but had to play around with the bottom of the frame and sacrifice some of the left side through cropping.

Would have been nice to end with a nice clean capture though. Hey ho.

4 panels each of Ha and Oiii

Skywatcher 80ED Pro
ASI294mc pro
Optolong l-eNhance
ASIair Pro
Q6-R Pro

Integrated in Astro Pixel Processor
Processed in Photoshop CC

 

Tony

[AstroMuni]

Thats lovely 😍

[mightymonoped]

9 minutes ago, AstroMuni said:

Thats lovely 😍

Thank you so much! 😊

[Sterrenland]

Amazing image! The detail is stunning. I may have to add this to my 'to do' list.

[mightymonoped]

57 minutes ago, Sterrenland said:

Amazing image! The detail is stunning. I may have to add this to my 'to do' list.

Thanks! (And go for it! 👍) 😊

[ollypenrice]

Very good and very speedy!

Olly