Still going through some more data from '23 while the clouds persist...
NGC346- a beautiful cluster and nebulous region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. After spotting it in some wider field shots I was keen to get up close and personal with this one - and with 8hrs and the L-Ultimate dual-band filter I think it's just enough to reveal the structure of this quite bright target, but not quite enough to extract some of the background nebulosity.
Ha & Oiii data extracted using APP and processed/combined in PI using the Foraxx utility. I was keen to experiment a little and with a slightly different approach using GHS and modifying the final output from Foraxx came up with a different rendition that I found quite interesting. I'm kinda torn between the two so thought I'd post both
Really missing some RGB stars but that's something I should have thought of 6 months ago when I shot this data.
Links to larger files of the two images
here and
here.
Image Details:
480X 120sec subs (8hrs) (L-ULtimate Fileter)
Celestron OAG
C14 non edge @f7 with the Starizona reducer LF
EQ8 pro
Asi2600mc pro gain 100
Asi220mm / celestron OAG
ZWO EAF
ASIAIR pro / APP / PI / LR
Binned (scaled) 50% in processing
Comments and suggestions welcome!
Thanks for looking.