A Garden of Ghouls, Flowers and a Spider

[Benjamin]

Had a fun week shooting some narrowband with my Skywatcher Esprit 100. I've found a new spot in the garden where I can just see the SCP and thus the Tarantula (and LMC) is now a possibility. Have been dying to image 30 Doradus for ages. The processing has been a bit drawn out across various iterations as I've added data, RGB stars being the latest addition. It's a rather Halloween inspired framing (if you get into that sort of thing) which I think suggests ghouls, wild flowers and of course a spider. The spider seems more golden orb to me (being a QLDer).
Scope: Skywatcher Esprit 100
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro (Gain 200 NB, Gain 76 BB, -10º)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R
Filters/exposures: Ha 5nm 79x180s, OIII 3nm 67x180s, SII 3nm 60x180s, Astrodon RGB (each about 25x30s exposures)
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/full/bzvg3f/0/

[gregbradley]

Love it, very dramatic.

Greg.

[Benjamin]

Cheers Greg. It's gotten more dramatic over the week that I've been trying to process the thing :-)

[Andy01]

Yeah, I’m with Greg too- looks bold & punchy, buckets of impact. :thumbsup:
(Will have a proper look tmrw, only on the phone atm)

EDIT: I've had a good look at the high res now and having worked on my own version of this for the past few weeks, the background looks a bit, 'smeared' on yours, although I love the colour palette. :)

[Placidus]

Oh so jealous. Our field of view is just a fraction of your excellent image, and it would be a life's work to do the whole thing.

[Benjamin]

Interesting. Perhaps a bit heavy on the noise reduction? It was a bit of a last step easily undone I think. The SII was quite noisy though so was getting lots of chaf but also realize there are heaps of small stars here that look a lot like noise (I think?). Will see what I can undo there :-) Many thanks for your comments Andy :-)

[Benjamin]

Was so happy to image this with a reasonably short focal length refractor. I’ve been used to the speed and resolution of the Newt but the wider fields and stability of the refractor are a nice trade off :-)

[AdamJL]

Beautiful field. When I get a mono camera next year, this is the first target I'm hitting.

Thanks for sharing, it's stunning

[Bassnut]

wow, that is dramatic, well done!. I like the colour pallet.

[Benjamin]

Thanks Fred and Adam. Mono narrowband from the city is a wonderful thing to be able to do :-)

[Benjamin]

Ah, I went back through the processing and found the errant noise reduction step (which was way too early in the sequence of things). Noise is reduced less in the new version but much more evenly I think ��
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/full/bzvg3f/C/

[JA]

It looks wonderful Ben. I love the almost iridescent colours.:thumbsup:

Best
JA

[Benjamin]

Many thanks JA.

[Ryderscope]

The bold pallet work well with this rendition I reckon Ben. Well done :thumbsup:

[vlazg]

The palette is very well done Ben, congratulations :thumbsup: