Cygnus heart narrowband mosaic

[drjolo]

I do not do many deep sky mosaics - I have made a few, and they have always been two-panel mosaics so far. But the frame below was in my mind for a long time already, so late spring this year I started to collect subframes and captured the last one in September. Then I waited a long time for a proper mood to process that material - it was a little bit scary to me  
But eventually, I picked up these over 50 hours of data that weighed over 60GB, calibrated, stacked, and processed in Pix and Photoshop. The final color palette is not referenced by anything - I have just mapped the narrowband data to the colors of my choice, added RGB stars, and that is it.

I hope you like it 😇 4K version after clicking. 

Tecnosky 90/540 Owl, 0.8x FF/FR, EQ6, QHY268M, 3x HSO 3x300 minutes, 3x RGB 3x40 minutes. Suburban sky, different conditions, summer 2023.

 

Edited December 9, 2023 by drjolo

[CCD Imager]

Very nice image with an ethereal look, perfectly saturated colours, I like your processing.

Adrian