Lagoon Nebula in narrowband

[Ric]

Hi all, another narrowband image. This time it is the Lagoon Nebula (M8) taken last night through the LX200R 12" with the DSI II Pro at f/3.3 and using 13nm narowband filters.

The images were taken at 8 second subs x 100 with Envisage, combined in MaximDL as HOS for RGB and tweaked in Paint Shop Pro.

All comments welcome.

Cheers:)

[leon]

Ric It looks like you captured that region very well indeed, the colours are different to what I would expect, but then I don't quite know what Narrow Band means.

So other than the fact that it is obviously well captured, ;) I will say no more.

Leon :thumbsup:

[peter_4059]

Ric,

The narrow band puts an intersting twist on the colour of the image. It looks nice and sharp.

Are you saving the uncombined images and post stacking?

Peter

[seeker372011]

interesting colours-this is the hubble pallette I assume?

[Ric]

Hi Seeker, I used a HOS palette with this one. I believe the Hubble palette is SHO.



Hi Peter, I take the images as fits3p and save all uncombined images. I then post stack in MaximDL and reject any duds.



Thanks Leon, it's still quite a brave new world to me as well and I still have heaps to learn as well. glad you liked it though.

Thanks all for your replys

Cheers :)

[Garyh]

Nice detail Ric!
Nice and sharp too!
I would like to try some narrowband imaging one day
:thumbsup:

[Zuts]

Nice one Ric,

For such short subs the detail is very good. Maybe you could even raise the FL to 6.3 and get a bigger image scale for some planetaries. When are you going to start using the wedge and guiding?

Paul

[Ric]

Thanks Gary, narrowband imaging is quite a fascinating area. while I enjoy the traditional colours I find that you are a lot less bound to the colours



Hi Paul, I have been considering buying a f/6.3 FR or even trying some imaging at f/10

The wedge is seeing little use at the moment as the setup and aligning really eats into imaging time. I'm hoping to get the obsevatory built within the next 8 months, that way I'll be able to permanently setup and really get things cooking.

Cheers

[jase]

Nice work Ric. Well done. I think its nearly time to graduate to a new camera to further progress your narrowband quest!

[Ric]

Thanks Jase, I must admit I do like the Starlight Express cameras but a new camera is a little way off at the moment. Unfortunately there are a few higher prioritys at the farm at the moment.

Cheers