TS Optics 80mm First Light on Horsehead and Flame Nebula

[Pyali (Pali)]

First light with the TS Optics Photoline 80mm F/6 triplet apo sold to me by another user on this forum.

Pretty stoked with it, nice to be able to play around with such a wide FOV. My RC6" will have a play mate now

10 hours of integration time

294MC Pro/STC Astro Duo Narrowband Filter/HEQ5

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Very nice especially the nebulosity near the edges

[Pyali (Pali)]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Very nice especially the nebulosity near the edges

Cheers Nik!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Details and focus are very good but you need to color balance it. It's way too red.

[Pyali (Pali)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Details and focus are very good but you need to color balance it. It's way too red.

Thanks for the tip! The G and B channels were quite weak in comparison to the R channel with the duo narrowband filter, so balancing it was aa challenge. I think the only remedy is to get true RGB data and combine it with the narrowband data.

[RyanJones]

Hi Pali,

Data is really nice but I have to agree with Marc, it is too red. I use the same filter snd I agree it’s very red sensitive. To combat this you need to process per channel and use your Blue/green as a luminance layer or stretch the blue/green channels seperatly. It’s a very different work flow but it pays dividends when you get it right.

[Pyali (Pali)]

Originally Posted by RyanJones

Hi Pali,

Data is really nice but I have to agree with Marc, it is too red. I use the same filter snd I agree it’s very red sensitive. To combat this you need to process per channel and use your Blue/green as a luminance layer or stretch the blue/green channels seperatly. It’s a very different work flow but it pays dividends when you get it right.

Awesome, I’ll try reprocessing it. Thanks for the feedback mate.

[gregbradley]

A lovely first image. Yes too red but easy to fix. Even using Photoshop auto colour feature may get a nice result.

Greg.