Thor's Helmet (I know, another one) in bicolour [Archive]

barx1963

22-01-2018, 11:15 PM

NGC2359 (Thors Helmet) in Canis Majoris. This is a bicolour version in Ha and OIII. 2.5 hours worth of 5 minute subs with each filter. Have had a few goes at processing this. Almost all done in Pixinsight with just a tiny tweak at the end with Photoshop. a lovely target but a tricky one to process.
Scope: Stellarvue SVR102T-IS
Mount: Orion AZ-EQ-G
Camera: Atik One 6.0
Filters: Astronomik 6nm Ha and OIII
Guiding: Orion SSAG Pro, Orion ST80 and PHD2
Capture: SGP

Wavytone

23-01-2018, 12:16 AM

Oh.. so THAT is what I was looking at on Friday night.

/me calls out NEXT... and scope slews accordingly, to the Fornax cluster...