First Light on the QSI wsg8 - Helix Revisited

[Andy01]

Hi Everyone,

I finally got the new QSI back from the good folks at the USA factory (following an unexpected circuit board failure within 24hrs of ownership) and had my first crack at bicolour NB imaging from the backyard.

This is just a systems test and needs heaps more data, but the potential is there... NB is cool :)

12x10 min Ha (red)
5 x 10min O3 (blue)
Synthetic green

Next step is to get the Lodestar OAG hooked up and guiding. I'm also struggling with scripting Nebulosity on the mac - really battling to get my head around it - anyone got any tips?

As for this test - I'm delighted to have a result, it's been a loooong time coming! No point in linking to a high res yet, as I'm off to the ASV star party at Nhill on the weekend so hopefully can add more to this and bag some other targets.

A year on from my first effort at this object on the OSC - also pictured below, the AP journey continues.

Cheers & thanks for looking - all constructive comments gratefully received.

Andy

[Placidus]

What an improvement! Looking very promising indeed. You've gotten the outer "eyebrow" in very short order. Took me a long time to get to that point. Well done.

[gregbradley]

Great shot Andy. Massive improvement over the OSC version.

In the background I can see a lot of red colour bias. That can be processed out. Perhaps as simply as raising the black point of the red channel.

Greg.

[Andy01]

Thanks Placidus, these 5nm Astrodon filters are pretty effective :)



Thanks Greg, I'm likely guilty of pushing limited data too hard (again) but I'll give that a go, appreciate your input :thumbsup:

[Rex]

Wow Andy, what an awesome amount of improvement. Looking forward to seeing the finished result.