NGC2359 Thor's Helmet

[AndyThilo]

Imaged over 2 nights and a tricky target to capture due to it's low altitude and shooting just above my neighbours roofs but I've tried to do it justice. Would ideally like another 6 hours but....UK weather lol. 

48 x 300s lights with IDAS NBZ Filter

ES102 @ 700mm f7

ASI2600MC Pro @ -10

 

[PeterCPC]

Really good. Too low for me to get.

[AndyThilo]

9 minutes ago, PeterCPC said:

Really good. Too low for me to get.

Thanks, I can get a few hours per night on it but only if the seeing is ok and zero moon lol. Always wanted to try these low targets, certainly a challenge!

[Elp]

Great image, I'm also doing this but it being just above a stream of led lighting and quite low guiding is a challenge at 1000mm. That and only having 1 odd hour per session to image it.

[AndyThilo]

8 minutes ago, Elp said:

Great image, I'm also doing this but it being just above a stream of led lighting and quite low guiding is a challenge at 1000mm. That and only having 1 odd hour per session to image it.

Thanks! Good luck and look forward to seeing the image

[gorann]

Great detail Andy! I see you are using the excellent NBZ filter and wonder if you could bring out more of the red signal, by using a curve to stretch the red channel. I think there could be more Ha to be found in the data.

[AndyThilo]

2 minutes ago, gorann said:

Great detail Andy! I see you are using the excellent NBZ filter and wonder if you could bring out more of the red signal, by using a curve to stretch the red channel. I think there could be more Ha to be found in the data.

Thanks! I pushed the red as much as I could, not sure if it's because of the short exposure time or altitude but the red just wasn't popping. I tried colour masks and red targeted saturation but it just didn't want to come out lol.

[MartinB]

Wonderfully detailed image.  The centre has a skull like appearance which I've never noticed before.  Like Gorann it would be nice to have a little red in there.

[AndyThilo]

Thanks Martin, I plan to add to it when possible

[AndyThilo]

1 minute ago, AndyThilo said:

Thanks Martin, I plan to add to it when possible

But…😂

[Justin richens]

wow love the brightness

[AndyThilo]

20 minutes ago, Justin richens said:

wow love the brightness

Thanks Justin