Gabriela Mistral Nebula

[furgle (Adam)]

This image is a narrowband representation showing Hydrogen-alpha (orange), Sulfur-II (red), and Oxygen-III (blue).

Image Integration:

• 43x 600s Hydrogen-alpha
• 42x 600s Sulfur-II
• 54x 600s Oxygen-III

Total exposure 23 hours 10 minutes.

Hardware:

• GSO RC8 carbon fibre astrograph
• SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
• QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
• Astronomik 6nm Ha, 6nm SII, 6nm OIII
• Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
• Starlight Xpress Active Optics
• Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider

Location:

• Imaged over five nights, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:

• The SkyX Pro
• AstroArt 6
• PHD2 + PHD_Dither
• CCDInspector
• CCDStack 2+
• PixInsight

Better resolution and processing description here

[Jeff]

I can see that a lot of work has gone into this.
Very Nice indeed.