Three images from Saturday night

[fwm891]

The flame and Horsehead is a single 300s sub and was the final single frame of the night as I just couldn't finish up without having a 'first' of the season image of the area. This is a slight crop for framing and used an IDAS NBZ filter during capture. Also a first use in PI of the GHS. Much easier to hold shadow detail but needs some time and lots more playing...

Veil area: 3x 600s, 3x 240s subs processed in PI this time trying the Narrowband Normalisation. Even more practice needed (for me) watched a few YT videos but my processing didn't really follow the videos....

Bubble area: 10x 600s subs, IDAS NBZ filter. Just followed my normal Curves Transform and Saturation routines for this one.

Noise reduction used on all images. Bubble and Veil images had the works (star removal (star and starless images processed separately and recombined), star reduction and noise reduction).

Thanks for looking

 

 

Edited October 17, 2023 by fwm891
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[Roy Foreman]

Good to see the flame nebula displaying its true colour.  So many images don't capture the subtle yellows, particularly when filters are used.  Like you I always revisit the old favourites each year, but Orion is a bit too far east for my location at the moment.

[fwm891]

55 minutes ago, Roy Foreman said:

Good to see the flame nebula displaying its true colour.  So many images don't capture the subtle yellows, particularly when filters are used.  Like you I always revisit the old favourites each year, but Orion is a bit too far east for my location at the moment.

It is for me Roy but it was 04:30 in the morning and Orion was high in the SE ! Best night I've had for months.