[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Thought I’d do some more wide field work with my 645 reducer. It gives a nice flat 2.4 deg FOV @ F 5.5. This is a 6hr LHaRGB image (60, 120, 60, 60, 60 minutes).

It’s a very pretty field with rich reds, some blues and a multitude of yellow stars. I used 10min subs for the LRGB channels and 20 mins for Ha. I blended the L and the R channels each with Ha in the ratio of 1 to 4 before building the final colour image. I also did an RGB combine and overlaid RGB stars (no Ha) as a colour layer to ensure rich star colours.

I’m pretty sure I’ve got the overall colours right and hopefully it’s not too saturated – it looks good on my CRT.

I cropped it just a tad for composition purposes and opted for the vertical presentation because it somehow looks better. NGC 6164-5 is a nice little bonus in the bottom left corner

Small: http://www.pbase.com/image/101394929/large
Large (full res, 4M) : http://www.pbase.com/image/101394929/original

Cheers, Marcus