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23-09-2018, 09:46 AM
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Planetary Nebula IC5148
Higher resolution here
Image:
39x 600s luminance
16x 300s red
22x 300s green
18x 300s blue
Total integration 11 hours 10 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik luminance, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Imaged over 2 nights, orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, color calibration, light deconvolution, reduce noise, LRGB combination, background neutralization, SCNR green, histogram stretch, curves.
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23-09-2018, 10:36 AM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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Well I didn't know that existed. Very nice image Adam.
23-09-2018, 05:57 PM
Narrowing the band
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Excellent! Lots of detail there.
23-09-2018, 08:01 PM
Novichok test rabbit
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Delicioso!
24-09-2018, 06:14 AM
ze frogginator
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Superb!
25-09-2018, 08:21 AM
My God it's full of stars
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As Spock would say, Fascinating!
Nicely done
25-09-2018, 08:34 AM
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Great detail - love the colour!
Mark
25-09-2018, 09:54 PM
Farting Nebulae
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Yes I love the colour and detail.
26-09-2018, 04:09 PM
PI rules
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Great detail Adam. Maybe the colour is a bit too blue?
Geoff
26-09-2018, 05:24 PM
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Many thanks
Quote:
Great detail Adam. Maybe the colour is a bit too blue?
Geoff
I kind of felt that way, but after watching all of the Adam Block tutorials, it made more sense to keep the luminance values at ~0.6 to pull as much colour as possible. Once it came time to brighten the image, I just couldn't find a pleasing balance. I think the color is true, just a little on the dark side.
Last edited by furgle; 26-09-2018 at 06:22 PM .
26-09-2018, 05:55 PM
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That’s a great PN image Adam. I like the swirling detail that you’ve captured in the nebula. Nice one.
26-09-2018, 06:03 PM
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That's a wonderful image.
Greg.
28-09-2018, 07:46 AM
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Amazing looking photo Adam.
Love the colour.
Ross.
01-10-2018, 03:49 PM
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That's a good image of this tough target. I spent a lot of hours trying to get the outer halo and only manage to get some of it. I urge you to try for it yourself. There are only a few amateur images of the halo, so it is worth a try.
01-10-2018, 06:56 PM
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Paul Haese
That's a good image of this tough target. I spent a lot of hours trying to get the outer halo and only manage to get some of it. I urge you to try for it yourself. There are only a few amateur images of the halo, so it is worth a try.
Interesting. I'll add this as a note for next year. From my location I might need to use NB filters to see it.
03-10-2018, 03:54 PM
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Very well done!
Cheers,
Tim
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