A beautiful nebula now rising in the early morning.
I just returned from 3 nights in a row of beautiful clear skies where I managed to image 4 objects about 24 hours worth.
This one though was taken about 5 weeks ago with the Tak BRC250 before I sold it.
FLI ML8300 camera, Baader filters, Tak NJP mount.
HaLRGB 60 60 40 20 20 (why the 40 in red and not the others? Earlier than expected dawn ruined 2 green and blue). Currently your last image has to be finished by about 4:30am otherwise it gets too light).
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...55643/original
Here is a cropped portion of the image that highlights the beautiful parts of the nebula:
http://upload.pbase.com/image/118673435
Ha was blended in with multiple layers set to various blending modes and colour channels and done twice with one set to luminance as a mask to highlight the ridged area and help tone down a couple of select stars but not generally where it will wash out colour saturation).
Greg.