Ngc6559

[allan gould]

Another lost orphan from Astrofest, resurected by Geoff Biggs using Pixinsight to massage the data. Many thanks Geoff for your patience and ability.
This is a region that just about has everything in it except perhaps a galaxy and is a delight to image.
Camera was QSI8300 through a 5"Apo mounted on belt-driven, hypertuned EQ6 totally under the control of SGP for focus, temp control, plate solving etc.
It was a composite of 5x10min for RGB and 10x10min plus 4x30min of luminance.
Image had final processing in PS3.
Comments welcomed.

[ozstronomer]

Glad I could help, Allan. Still learning with PI

Nice Photoshop tweaks...looks good to me :)

Geoff

[RickS]

Allan,

A nice result from Astrofest. Any more to come?

Good to see you back on the AP horse ;) Also good to see Geoff exercising his PI muscles.

Cheers,
Rick.

[prokyon]

Very nice Allan! I did this object one year ago only in luminance. You show me how it looks like with color.

[Geoff45]

Lots of nice detail there Allan but I think it would benefit from a saturation push in Curves (PI not PS), using a luminance mask over the background.
Geoff

[NOMH]

Great fov for this target. I like the reflection and emission nebula mixed in a rich star field.

JB

[strongmanmike]

Nice to hear this orphan found a home, looks good Al :thumbsup:

Mike