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DiscoDuck
12-09-2021, 11:13 AM
The Fighting Dragons in HOO and SHO. About 4 hours each of O and S and 8 hours of Ha. This was largely an experiment to see how different dark sky site narrowband imaging is compared to suburban - as I tried this in the 'burbs last year. Considerably less noise, of course, from only half the exposure time (though a different camera and filters, so not entirely a fair comparison - the Chroma filters do not suffer from the nasty halos that the ZWO ones do on the brighter stars).

The HOO image has Ha applied as a luminance layer as it was a bit fuzzy without that. Hence it is a HOOHa image - pronounced as it looks! :) (The SHO image also has a similar trick - since the Ha covers most of the structures in this area. Hence that is an HaSHO image - pronounced like a sneeze! :D ).

Astrobin images are here (https://www.astrobin.com/6a06bz/) and here (https://www.astrobin.com/7nyiw3).

Suggestions/comments welcome.

Paul

Andy01
12-09-2021, 11:16 AM
Love the SHO version, pin sharp - amazing detail, well done! :thumbsup:

DiscoDuck
12-09-2021, 11:50 AM
Thanks so much, Andy :)

multiweb
12-09-2021, 12:41 PM
So cool.... :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

AdamJL
12-09-2021, 01:37 PM
Wow that first one is stunning. Love it!

Nikolas
12-09-2021, 02:10 PM
Love the first one!

DiscoDuck
12-09-2021, 02:57 PM
Thank you, Adam and Nik.

Edit: And Marc (sorry - missed before :)).