Mufasa Nebula (aka Gabriela Mistral) 34 hours

[rmuhlack]

This is my take on the Gabriela Mistral Nebula using the SHO colour palette, using the excellent image (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=153761) by Mike and Trish as a processing guide.

Red: 13 hours SII (12nm Astronomik)
Green: 10.75 hours Ha (6nm Astronomik)
Blue: 10.5 hours OIII (12nm Astronomik)

Telescope: Vixen VC200L @ f6.4
Mount: NEQ6
Camera: SBIG ST10XE, 15min subs

Hi res here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/285939/0/

With this orientation and framing the image reminded me of Mufasa from Disney's "The Lion King". What do you think? :)

[Atmos]

Looks pretty good Richard :)
Got some funkiness going on with the brighter stars and diffraction spikes :P

[Octane]

Beautiful work, Richard.

H

[rmuhlack]

The ST10XE is a NABG camera, so the brighter stars exhibit blooming.

[rmuhlack]

Thanks H :)

[Placidus]

Great work, Richard. Colour looks excellent to us. :) As you said, the North-Up orientation tells a very different story. The mega-data approach has captured pretty much all of the nebulosity.

Cheers!
M & T

[rmuhlack]

Thanks Mike & Trish. I've put together a true colour version as well, using the original SHO image as luminance plus 160mins of colour data collected using a second 200f4 scope with a QHY10

[RickS]

I like the true colour version, Richard.

[rmuhlack]

Thanks Rick. I'm leaning that way myself ;)