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Old 19-08-2020, 02:59 PM
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M16 Eagle Nebula in OSC Narrowband

Perfect night in Sydney last night to try my new ZWOASI2600MC and ZWO 2” Duo band filter
Chose M16 Eagle as it allowed my scope to point away from neighbours flood lights plus I’ve only imaged this object once this year

6” f6 Bintel GSO newt on an EQ6-R mount
ZWOASI2600MC Camera with Baader coma corrector and ZWO 2” Duo band filter
Bortle 8 skies
Ascom Camera control ( Highest Dynamic Range, Gain 0 )
Camera cooled to -10C
Orion 60mm guide scope with helical focuser and ZWOASI120MM-S USB3 guide camera
40 x 2 minute dithered guided subs
15 x darks ( don’t really need darks with this new camera )
PHD2 guiding at 0.80 to 0.90 arc sec error total
Goto and tracking EQMOD, StellariumScope and Stellarium
Frame , Focus and Capture APT
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.5 Composite mode for OSC linear Bayered not white balanced

Image 1 OSC Narrowband
Image 2 OSC Narrowband with colour

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Old 19-08-2020, 04:43 PM
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Impressive results.
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Old 19-08-2020, 04:54 PM
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You seem to have some excellent signal there - you really hit the ground running with the new ZWO!

A suggestion, if I may; Instead of leaving Ha/red dominant, maybe consider doing, for example, a pure bi-color.

Start off with re-synthesising a new synthetic luminance dataset to go with the new coloring; load all channels as normal, but double the exposure time for green (since you use an OSC with a Bayer matrix, having 2x more green samples than red or blue). Set "Luminance, Color" to "L + Synthetic L from RGB, Mono" to create a new mono luminance dataset from all this.

A popular thing to do, is to synthesise a new channel from green+blue (constituting O-III) and import that as both green AND blue equally (this yields the pure cyan). You can synthesise this new channel using the Compose module or the Layer module.

To put it all together for processing, in the Compose module, import the original dataset as red, import your new "green+blue" as green, and once more import your new "green+blue" as blue. Finally load your new synthetic luminance as the luminance source. Set "Luminance, Color" to "L, RGB".

Now you're all set. Doing so, you will get the best of both worlds; the cleanest possible detail (luminance) and custom bi-color colouring.

From there, process your detail as normal (in mono). Once you hit the Color module it will start you out with the popular red/cyan bi-color rendition.

And as a bonus, as of StarTools 1.6, using the Matrix option, you can remap your color channels on the fly to choose from many other color renditions, all without having to re-composite and re-process. It does so without impacting detail or noise at all. There should also be a helpful Duoband preset in the Color module to quickly dial in some useful preset values.

Hope this makes sense and helps!
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Old 19-08-2020, 05:34 PM
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Thanks
I had a look at one the previous posts in the Startools forum where someone asked about OSC narrowband processing
I followed that procedure but I’ll have a look at the additional popular suggestion further down in your reply
I also sent a post in the forum about Star masks ( if you could kindly reply )

Jeff
Thanks
It certainly took me by surprise how much detail is in this image
Very happy with my set up for Sydney
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Old 20-08-2020, 03:08 PM
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Sorry M, missed this one.

Wow! An absolute cracker!

Can you zoom in on the pillars...just for fun?
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Old 20-08-2020, 11:22 PM
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Looks great. That duo filter seems to be working for you. A lot of clear detail.
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Old 21-08-2020, 12:25 AM
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Thanks Peter
I’ll try and reprocess a close up of the main pillar area but you do lose some resolution ( just for fun )

Thanks Ray
The Duo band filters great but processing is a little more complicated than straight RGB ,but nevertheless extremely excited to expose detail like never before under Sydney’s horrible LP
New camera is unbelievable as well, can’t wait to get back down to my weekender dark site and image a bunch of galaxies which are rising in the east now
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