Rosette 2022

[Gastraea]

Not really super happy but here is something.

[xelasnave]

You should be happy John...round stars, decent focus and the colour by my eye is perfect...getting anything is a good day...well done.
Alex

[Gastraea]

Thanks. Still I think I like narrowband versions of this target

[AstroViking]

I agree with Alex - the stars and focus are good, there's detail in the nebulosity.

What don't you like about it?

Cheers,
V

[oska]

Nice one John. Very neat and crisp. Can you share your capture details?

[Gastraea]

I would have posted earlier but I'm lazy.

The image comprises of
120s x30 Sii
120s x30 Oiii
120s x30 Green
120s x197 Ha

I use a zwo electronic focus with one of the focus routines in Sharpcap.
All the zwo filters seems fairly much parafocal and often I just change the filter and keep shooting.

Visually the night seemed to have little twinkle to them (that as scientific as I get)

My Losmandy G-11 needs some work but PHD2 claimed the RMS errors were usually just over 1 px.

So basically all of the equipment is WO & zwo stuff in my sig block.

Used pixinsight to stack and do all its wonderful calibration stuff.

Basically just added Ha*Sii together to make Red, Used the Green as Green and Oiii as Blue. Then I used pixinsight to calibrate the colour off star charts.

There is almost no other processing. In the past this seems to just leave artifacts. I'll try to post a link to a png version on google images. The jpg looks bad.

[Gastraea]

This I find amusing it's the Ha channel with Starnet removing all the stars.

[Gastraea]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/b1RdcvUBpwFTERqT6