Carina Reprocess in Bicolour HA OIII

[Nikolas]

Reprocessed earlier data Using Astropixel Processor extracted HA and OIII channels then combined Final process in Photoshop
Combined stacks of 60 120 and 180 seconds approximately 2 hours acquisition
ZWO 294MC Pro Skywatcher ED 72 Skywatcher NEQ6 ZWO ASIAIR

Optolong L-Enhance


Comments welcomed please

[RyanJones]

Wow Nik. The depth in this image is incredible. Great colour combination and nice contrast. Very inspiring. Well done 👍

Cheers

Ryan

[pkinchington]

Hi Nik,

Lovely - Wonderful texture and depth. I have just started astrophotography of nebula and want to create images like this - Well done!
Cheers Kanga

[Nikolas]

Thanks guys, Astropixel processor is a very good alternative to Pixinsight if you are not mathematically inclined. It does a great job of extracting the channels and then allowing bi colour combinations, the rest is done in Photoshop which I am very familiar with.

[multiweb]

Beautiful :thumbsup:

[LewisM]

Yep, noice. REWL NOICE! :P

[Atmos]

A very contrasty rendition Nik, one for the cool wall for sure.

[Nikolas]

Thanks guys
Skywatcher Australia have featured it today on their instagram page

[Andy01]

Very funky colours Nik :cool3:

[Ryderscope]

An intriguing and very pleasing rendition of this well know object Nik.

Your reference to APP “extracted Ha and OIII channels” has tweaked my curiosity. Does this mean that you were not using additional filters on your ZWO 294 OSC and that APP was doing this in software?

[Nikolas]

Hi Rodney
I use the L-Enhance filter by Optolong, it is a dual narrowband filter for OSC which allows H-Alpha and O3 through .
AstropixelProcessor actually has an HA and O3 extraction routine when you are stacking, you have to run the routine twice once for HA and once for O3 then you can combine the colours in RGB combine where you can tweak it.

[vlazg]

I agree with Rodney and am also curious about extracting the channels. :thumbsup:

[Nikolas]

There is this: (https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/tutorials-workflows/combining-r-g-b-with-ha-oiii-data-using-an-optolong-l-enhance-filter/)
Also this great video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lki-TfkrlQ)
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5XgZ3odKx8) one as well on how to combine (he rambles a bit but it is great)

[codemonkey]

A lovely Carina, Nik! Cool palette.

[pkinchington]

Love the details in the cloud.

[Nikolas]

Thanks guys IT took a lot of learning the process in regards to the combination and processing but I'm pretty proud of it, Skywatcher australia have shared it on their instagram page so pretty happy with that