I've made progress on my recent project.
I'm quite happy with the way this is turning out.
I've captured the LRGB stars to replace the purple mess in this image, but, I'm waiting to capture my blue flat frames (hopefully tomorrow morning) then I can combine the LRGB stars into this and finish it off.
This is the Lambda Centauri Nebula (IC 2944), colloquially referred to as the Running Chicken Nebula, flanked on the left by the beautiful open cluster called the Pearl Cluster (NGC 3766).
This is my longest cumulative exposure to date. I captured over 80 hours of data but whittled it down to the best 60 hours. 20 hours of hydrogen alpha, 20 hours of oxygen III and 20 hours of sulphur II. Each exposure was 30 minutes long. This works out to 120 individual exposures.
This palette is OIII, SII and hydrogen alpha mapped to red, green and blue respectively. The traditional SHO mapping looked garish.
I hope you like what I've done thus far.
SBIG STL-11000M, Takahashi FSQ-106N, Losmandy G-11 Gemini
120 x 1800.0s f/5.0 at 530.0mm -20 degrees Celsius
50% resolution available
here.
I should add that this is straight out of Pixinsight. I haven't taken it to Photoshop yet.
Comments, critique, lynching, etc., welcome.
Thank you for looking.
H