IC 1795 & Heart Nebula

[johnrt]

What a treat! A whole evening of clear skies without minus double figure temperatures! Thought I'd best make the most of it while it lasted.

4 hours exposure in SII - Red, OIII - Blue and Ha - Green.

Atik 314l+ & WO Megrez 72.

[GrantEb]

Nice one. Love the colours.

[JCJC]

Great image! Like the detail in the dark parts of the neb.

[ollypenrice]

Escellent close up detail there.

Olly

[Stephen]

Those colours are awesome

[Taff]

Hi' what a clear picture of the nebula' great colours there.Mark

[johnrt]

Thanks for your comments! What a relief to be able to actually got outside again!

There is some really good strong Oiii & even Sii signal to be had around this object.

[dc509]

Excellent colours - nicely rendered

d

[Coco]

Lovely job... great colours BTW

The little 285 chips still cuts the mustard

[johnrt]

Thanks Guy, yep you really can't fault the little atik - brilliant camera.

[crabbiT Scot]

Beautiful!!!!

[adamsp123]

Very nice piece of work

[MartinB]

Well done John and congrats on getting some clear skies. Was that 4 hours in each channel or total? You've got some lovely Ha detail but, for me the image is dominated by Ha, with a few wisps of OIII poking through. If you have 4 hours of SII and OIII you should be able to push the 2 weaker channels a bit more to bring out the hubble colours.

Bob Franke has put together an excellent tutorial including some great tips on using the selective colour tool. Works really well.

Creating Hubble Palette Color Mapped Images

[johnrt]

Hi Martin,

Alas I'm not lucky enough to get enough clear sky to get 4 hours in each channel, just 4 hours in total so far. Next time the clouds part I'll be going back for more.

I'm using PixInsight for calibration, stacking and processing - the link you posted looks like it will be very useful as I also have CS5 which I haven't used for astro work yet.

It's always good to get some opinions on your images, thank you very much for the advice.

[saturn5]

I'll echo the great colours sentiment too, a beauty.