Iris Nebula SW200P

[Gerr]

This is the second of deep sky objects I was able to capture beginning of September and one I always found difficult to do nicely!

I utilised my 8" SW200P reflector on a HEQ5 mount coupled with a Zwo 294MC pro astro cooled camera at -10deg.

There was some high haze in the sky and the odd strong breeze which were enough to ruin half of my 4 minute subs!

But I still managed 2.3hrs of good data which I put into Siril with calibration frames.

The resultant stacked image I then processed in Photoshop CS with some tweaks done by Graxpert and StarnetGUI.

This is my best attempt so far and one I intend to keep!! Really pleased with it.

I hope you can agree? CC's welcome as usual.

 

The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023):

 

 

 

[carastro]

Really nice result.  

 

PS:  I only looked at it on my phone earlier - now I am on the PC, it looks even better.  Well done.  

Edited September 19 by carastro

[TiffsAndAstro]

44 minutes ago, Gerr said:

This is the second of deep sky objects I was able to capture beginning of September and one I always found difficult to do nicely!

I utilised my 8" SW200P reflector on a HEQ5 mount coupled with a Zwo 294MC pro astro cooled camera at -10deg.

There was some high haze in the sky and the odd strong breeze which were enough to ruin half of my 4 minute subs!

But I still managed 2.3hrs of good data which I put into Siril with calibration frames.

The resultant stacked image I then processed in Photoshop CS with some tweaks done by Graxpert and StarnetGUI.

This is my best attempt so far and one I intend to keep!! Really pleased with it.

I hope you can agree? CC's welcome as usual.

 

The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023):

 

 

 

Very very nice.