[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

It will be interesting to see where the NII takes this Suavi. I’ve wondered how much data there is to be had from NII for these objects.

Signal in NII is quite strong for the Helix, that's probably why people get good SNR more quickly with 5nm Ha for this target.

I will post NII master after I collect the data.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I like the extra details you brought out but it seems to have lost colour saturation in the process.

Greg.

Thank you Greg for your feedback. I am still not quite happy with the colours but hopefully the final tri-colour image will be more satisfying.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Those fainter areas are showing up really well Suavi

Thank you Colin. I have never before pushed my data this much, so all of that is a new territory and experimenting has been quite enlightening :-)

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Great result Suavi. Love seeing those faint outer shock-fronts.

Thank you Pete. This project was intended to be a quick one (10 hours per channel), but somehow I kept adding more and more integration to see how much can my small refractor reveal.

Originally Posted by Placidus

The new stretch is simply stunning.




A magnificent result.

Thank you Mike and Trish.

I have not been using darks for calibration in my images, but in the coming days I will collect some darks and see if that helps in rescuing a few more photons from the camera-induced signal.