Well the weather gods smilled on me and after 4 months on the imaging wagon
....I had a perfectly clear still night here in Newcastle with reasonable seeing THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So YEP! not a repro, not a hybrid image...this is an
all new image
Anyway, I did several hours Ha and OIII on Orion's Sword with the intention of compiling a new way-out there version
...but I also collected 10min each or RGB (5 X 2min) just for the stars....I was so surprised at the amount of nebula obtained in just 10min each of RGB under atrocious light pollution that I thought I'd post it
The Smoking Sword
The power of aperture and speeeeed
here is a deeper Hybrid HaOIIIRGB in true colour
Smoking Orions Sword
Mike