The cloud cleared and Elephants Trunk Nebula captured

[Xsubmariner]

Finally captured some data when sky opened for 2 short windows this last week.  Taken with the TAK150/QHY268M using 3nm Antlia SHO filters. The data consists of 16xHa, 10xOiii and 12xSii all at 300secs.

 

 

[windjammer]

Do you have any processing details ?  Vg and vvg considering limited number of exposures

[peter shah]

Thats a great result...

[simmo39]

That looks v atmospheric! Even if there isn't any in space. 

[Xsubmariner]

8 hours ago, windjammer said:

Do you have any processing details

I process using Pixinsight. For my NB data I use mostly the following sequence : WBPP, (ABEorDBE), RC-BXT&NXT Ha only, NXT Sii and Oiii, PixelMath to combine, (ABEorDBE), GHS,  RC-StarX, Colour Masks with Curves Transformation, LHE, CT, Dark Structure Enhance, CT with star image, PixelMath combine starless-stars, CT. 

With NB it’s just fun to experiment and try out different combinations, undoubtedly the RC tools has simplified some of the old processes. 

[Xsubmariner]

Thanks Peter and Simmo for your kind words. 

[JonHigh]

That’s an awesome image!!!

[windjammer]

10 hours ago, Xsubmariner said:

I process using Pixinsight. For my NB data I use mostly the following sequence : WBPP, (ABEorDBE), RC-BXT&NXT Ha only, NXT Sii and Oiii, PixelMath to combine, (ABEorDBE), GHS,  RC-StarX, Colour Masks with Curves Transformation, LHE, CT, Dark Structure Enhance, CT with star image, PixelMath combine starless-stars, CT. 

With NB it’s just fun to experiment and try out different combinations, undoubtedly the RC tools has simplified some of the old processes. 

Thanks for this - good motivation to explore the far reaches of PI!