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Old 14-09-2016, 06:42 PM
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Maaaaaaates! - M8 and M20 Narrowband

Yay, my first ever narrowband image taken with my own equipment! Can you feel the excitement? Sorry, I digress....

Taken with the new ASI1600 mono-cooled cam and Takahashi E-130D astrograph, camera at -15c, this is 13 shots of 3nm Ha @ 5 mins each and 10 shots of 3nm SII, same exposure. Taken from my outer suburban backyard in Melbourne.

I created an artificial O3 channel using a combo of the 2 filters' data. Don't ask me what palette I used, I winged it, though I do recall SII was red...

Rather pleased with the variety of hues I got out of this. Loving the smooth nature of the CMOS sensor images.

Processed in Pixinsight, PS and Lightroom, oh and starless neb details added via Straton.

C&C welcome, I'm very new to this, so excited to be doing this stuff!

I'll be trying 10 min subs soon, though PI says 5 mins is maximum for my site - so I hope to stack a lot more subs in future - cloudless future I mean! Bloody overcast down here lately as most of you know.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7...UJGWTMzNHhsajA
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