Tarantula

[ChrisV]

I've been using an OSC camera for a few years and have just got a mono camera (the venerable ASI1600mm-cool) on IIS.

So here's a go at a narrowband Tarantula. 6.5hrs each of SHO (Baader 6.5nm filters), plus a bit of RGB for the stars. All through a SW 8" F4 newt on an old onstep modified G11. Processed in PI - WBPP, mure denoised, light convolution, channels combined & normalised, hyperbolic stretching, then added RGB stars and star reduction

Hi-res image here (https://astrob.in/mx9zwv/0/)

Comments please, would be really appreciated. Took me a while to sort out mono processing to get to this stage !

[alpal]

Hi Chris,
what a wonderful picture.
That's nearly 24 hours of integration.
It's nice when it all comes together so well.

cheers
Allan

[Startrek]

Chris,
Great image of the Tarantula and the surrounding region. Nicely processed too.
I don’t know how you gathered so much data in the past month , the weather of an evening has been atrocious this summer so far around Sydney and South Coast NSW.

Well done indeed !!

Martin

[ChrisV]

Thanks. I got about 5-6 good nights and just let it run on autopilot from 10pm - 4am, doing the RGB on the edges (was the week before Christmas I think). For some reason, tracking was good and few clouds, so I had very few fail subs

[Dave882]

Great work Chris. Nice detail all round and I'm glad you got some RGB for the stars I love all those little clusters!

[ChrisV]

Thanks. I'm a beginner at processing mono and blending in RGB stars - I'll have another go at it and try and get more of the smaller stars. There were so many small ones that I wasn't able to include in the star mask. Been a while since I've used pixinsight and there's lots of new cool stuff!!

[VYCanisMajoris]

Chris

I think this looks fantastic!:thumbsup: There's some great detail showing the complexity of the structure and I particularly like seeing the sharp pinpoint stars within the clusters of the Tarantula.

Cheers
John

[Bodon]

Very nice!