I'm gearing up to shoot a few more broadband targets in the coming months, and haven't properly processed a dark or reflection nebula in a very long time.
So in the interest of getting in some practice, I thought I'd take advantage of the data sets that Martin Pugh has available for purchase on his website:
https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/
I purchased This data set, assuming that it would be quite a challenge to get a reasonable image out of, because it was from a mono camera and I'm colour blind, but I feel like the data was so strong, and todays tooling is incredibly good, I actually had a really good time working with this data, and know that there's more in it too!
The data is approximately 16hrs from an AP 305mm Riccardi Honders Astrograph on a Paramount ME II, with an SBIG STXL-16200, and it is exquisite to work on.
So a massive thanks to Martin Pugh for making his datasets available for purchase... Not sure if it was the practice I needed because I feel the data is far superior than anything I could ever collect myself, but it was definitely satisfying to work on data so magnificent.
Processed from Integration to Completed image in PixInsight...
Full resolution on Astrobin... I think there's at least 20 background galaxies in here that I've never seen before!