Heart re-processed

[Fegato]

I imaged the Heart Nebula in broadband in late 2022, and looking back at it, the background didn't look right. So I had another go a few weeks ago, with careful starless DBE. I've just put the finishing touches to it, and it just shows how important (and dangerous) background extraction / gradient removal can be. There's a whole lot of background detail here that I had wiped previously - lots of dust and dark areas. This is a two panel mosaic with not much more than 30 minutes per panel, RASA 11 and ASI2400MC Pro. Second image is a heavy crop showing the "heart of the heart" - not totally sharp, but not too bad.

[simmo39]

V nice!

[TiffsAndAstro]

Theres some great detail there, great image.

[ollypenrice]

I think your background in the first image is now particularly good.

Olly

[Fegato]

thanks all for the positive comments!

[assouptro]

Love the dusty detail! Great image! 
Thanks for sharing 

Bryan 😊

[Stuart1971]

Lovely images 👏🏻

‘Very nicely processed…

[geeklee]

On 15/08/2024 at 09:44, Fegato said:

the background didn't look right.

Fantastic Robin.   It's a nice change to see this with pure OSC showing all the dust and darkness in the background contrasting the Ha.