Blue Snowball Nebula - Drizzle Stacked

[rich_t]

I'm not sure if my NGC7662 subs from yesterday were suitable for this but decided to give the 3x Drizzle stack in DSS a go, to try and increase the image scale.

I did some sharpening at the 300% up sampled resolution and then dropped it down to 200% with the 1.5x software binning in Astro Art.

I've also pushed the red more as those subs were a bit weak because of the sky conditions.

The stacking method seems to have brought out a bit more but I'm not sure if this is just because it's bigger now?

Thanks for looking,

Rich.

[brendant]

Beautiful image Rich, lovely colour and definition in the Nebula, what were the scope / camera details.

Brendan

[Ford Prefect]

Very nice shot

jon

[rich_t]

Hi Brendan, It's a 10" Meade LX90LNT at 1500mm with a SXVF-H9 camera.

Thanks very much,

Rich.

[brendant]

Thanks Rich, you should be really pleased with a result like that.

Brendan

[Beyond_Vision]

It looks like the reprocess has certainly given it a lift nice work Rich

[Tim]

On these tiny nebs, if you want to enlarge them a bit in PS, do it no more than 10% at a time. Increasing the dpi will help it be smoother when you adjust it too.

I usually play about with a few versions, see what appears to be coming out, then check that against a proper image from the web etc.

Very nice though, worth the redo Rich!

[Taff]

Great capture Rich' nice clour of the neb.Mark

[johnh]

Resampling has certainly brought this tiny planetary to a better scale, that pink in the middle is what I got which is accurate. JohnH

[rich_t]

Thanks for the nice comments. I'll have a go at the 10% step increase and see how that comes out Tim. I blew that somewhat with the 100% increase:)

Rich.

[ollypenrice]

I'm ipressed by the details there. It is seriously small, this object.

Olly