NGC 3576 Statue of Liberty Nebula ( first image )

[Startrek]

Clear night on Wednesday so decided to image the a Statue of Liberty Nebula for the first time. Moon was around 85% lighting up the whole sky
As the nebula was quickly decending in the South SW at sunset I only had less than 2 hours to capture it before being to low

8” f5 GSO newt
Skywatcher EQ6-R mount
ZWOASI2600MC set in Ascom Gain 100 Lowest Read Noise cooled to -10C
Optolong L Extreme filter
38 x 3 minute dithered guided subs
PHD2 Multistar guiding ( 0.65 arc sec error total )
Tracking and Goto EQMOD and Ascom Stellarium
Framed focused and captured with APT
Subs reviewed in Astap
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.7 Compose Linear OSC Bi Colour ( Matrix )


SHO versions
Synthetic Luminance version

Obviously needed significantly more data on this object , preferably without the moon blasting across my OTA
This region has an immensely dense Star field so used the shrink module for dimming and Star size reduction plus a fair amount of noise caused by moon glare which had to be reduced
Happy to snag my first Statue of Liberty, can only improve on this effort

Comments welcome
Thanks

[xelasnave]

Considering where it is you have done very well indeed and of course the Moon inhibits things...but to my eye it looks rather decent.
Alex

[PKay]

Persisting through the Moon noise M

You have done well :thumbsup:

I have gone fishing...

Addendum:
I think you should go back to the Beginners forum M.
Not because your work is not up to par, it is, but to keep the forum alive :)

[gregbradley]

Looks good overall but the image is black clipped so you have lost some background stars there.

The Ha looks the best.

Greg.

[Startrek]

Thanks Alex 👍

[Startrek]

Peter,
Thanks mate
Clear nights (moon or no moon) you have to take every opportunity here on the coast
Martin

[Startrek]

Thanks Greg
It’s almost impossible to clip your data in Startools ( have a read on the website about the software ) good observation though.You don’t use histograms and curve charts to control stretching etc ....
I used the Shrink module to dim and reduce the Star field and Super Structure to peg back the brightness ( probably a little too much I’d say as some outer detail was lost )
Cheers
Martin

[Nikolas]

2nd one for me nice work

[Startrek]

Thanks Nik
Appreciate your comment