NGC6357 in SHO

[furgle]

My second attempt at narrowband imaging. Usually I don't like the green level in the SHO palette, but I'm pretty chuffed at how this one turned out.

Full resolution image here (http://adam.lundie.com.au/astrophotography/NGC6357_in_Narrowband/NGC6357_in_Narrowband_20160606.html )

Image:



18x 900s 6nm H-alpha
26x 510s 12nm SII
22x 480s 12nm OII
25x 48s Red
21x 48s Green
26x 48s Blue

Total exposure 12 hours 5 minutes.


Hardware:



Celestron EdgeHD 1100
SkyWatcher EQ8 Mount
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
QSI 683-ws Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ 2c RGB filters, 6nm Ha, 12nm SII, 12nm OIII
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Xpress Adaptive Optics
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II

[Atmos]

That looks really good Adam! Nice seeing your improvement over the last 12 months as well too :)

[multiweb]

+1 Excellent close up. Really well done indeed. :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

That is a very unusual framing. Very clever. You got a lot of detail there. Nice one.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Some lovely detail in there Adam :thumbsup:

Mike

[Ryderscope]

Wow, very nice work indeed Adam.

[RickS]

Very cool, Adam! I haven't seen NGC6357 look quite like that before :thumbsup:

[Placidus]

A very different, but legitimate and informative, rendition.