M16 Narrowband

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

I think I am reasonably happy with this. M16 in narrowband. Details are:

Scope: Stellarvue SVR102T-IS
Mount: Orion AZEQ-G
Camera: Atik One 6.0
Filters: Astronomik Ha, OIII and SII 6nm
Guiding: Orion ST80 and Orion SSAG Pro with PHD2
Acquisition: SGP
Processing: Calibrated, registered and stacked in Pixinsight, initial combination and processing in Pixinsight with final tweaks in PS CC

5 minutes x 8 frames of OIII and Ha, 5minutes x 10 frames of SII

Probably needs more data but at this time of year I only had about 1 hour of available time each night to collect data so this was done over 4 nights.

Malcolm

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's excellent! I'd be stoked with one like this.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Pretty good one Malcolm, I like the framing

Mike

[gregbradley]

That's a pleasing result.

Greg.

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Nice work, Malcolm...

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Nice work Malcolm - hey I thought you were a visual only guy?
Good to see you've come over to the play with the A-team, lol

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Very deep. You've got some great super-faint detail there.

The background is a bit milky. It looks much better if you carefully adjust the zero point for each channel.

Excellent result.

Best,
Mike

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by Andy01

Nice work Malcolm - hey I thought you were a visual only guy?
Good to see you've come over to the play with the A-team, lol

Andy
Visual/imaging, really what does it matter? All photons at the end of the day.
I have a log now of nearly 2000 recorded visual observations, so I am thinking of a bit of a project of starting through them and doing a bit of an image for many of them to enhance my enjoyment of them.

Anyway, glad you liked my little effort.

Cheers

Malcolm

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's excellent! I'd be stoked with one like this.

Cheers Marc, very much appreciated!!

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Pretty good one Malcolm, I like the framing

Mike

Framing was more luck than design, just how it came out, though having the rotatable focuser does make framing easier if needed.

Thank you so much for the positive comment also Mike.


Malcolm

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a pleasing result.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. I was very pleased when it came together. Still far from perfect or even respectability in this exalted company, but pleasing for a newbie imager!!

Cheers

Malcolm

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by rcheshire

Nice work, Malcolm...

Thanks Rowland
Bit a of challenge getting this narrowband stuff organised, but happy when things click occasionally.

Malcolm

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Very deep. You've got some great super-faint detail there.

The background is a bit milky. It looks much better if you carefully adjust the zero point for each channel.

Excellent result.

Best,
Mike

Mike
Thank you for your encouraging and positive comments! Will give that a try, the background is one of the challenges that I am grappling with (alongside magenta stars, getting colours right, fuzzy details etc!). I was pleased with the amount of faint stuff that popped out even with a relatively small integration time. the camera does produce quite noisefree subs with the Sony 694 chip, which helps a lot with that.

Cheers

Malcolm

[Octane (Humayun)]

Gotta be happy with that. Well done!

I was also taken aback by you posting an image!

H

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice work, Malcolm!

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Thanks for the comments Rick and H. H I have snuck a few images on here over the past 12 months or so. Just like to keep people guessing.

I had a bit of a fiddle with the background to remove the "milkiness" as suggested by Mike.

Malcolm