First light with QHY9m / M8 SII+Ha+OIII+RGB

[dylan_odonnell]

I finally made the jump to a mono CCD which I picked up second hand here on the forums. Of course, I got a huge bump in quality and decrease in required exposure time .. very happy!

In playing around with the HST colour palette I got a nice looking image but then for kicks added a 50% blended layer of RGB data from the QHY12 OSC CCD and ended up with this result that draws out the narrowband ranges nicely, but leans back towards the visual red of the emission nebula and natural blue/orange stars.

Ha + OIII = 30 x 60s subs with hyperstar / QHY9m mono
SII = 28 x 180s subs with hyperstar / QHY9m mono
RGB = 40 x 180s subs with hyperstar / QHY12 colour

Higher resolution here : http://deography.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/M8-Ha-O3-S2-RGB.jpg

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[RickS]

A good result for first light!

Cheers,
Rick.

[Atmos]

Looking good Dylan!
The 8300 is a nice camera that's for sure.

[multiweb]

Can't go wrong with a good M8. Nice one. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Yep, what Marc said :D interesting colours too, different, nice :thumbsup:...and it's upside down :question:....:P

Mike

[Somnium]

well done on the astro imaging channel's image of the week !

[dylan_odonnell]

Thanks guys! Hehe I know I know Mike! Breaking all the conventions heh.

Was stoked to get IOTW on TAIC hangout because those guys speak about processing stuff way above my level all the time. Trying to get my head around Deconvolution now which probably would've improved this. Working on second light with the QHY9 now.

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