another ngc3132 - Ha only

[Maurice]

Hello all

After seeing Mike's great shot of this object I almost gave up taking more data on mine....

Didn't turn out too bad. Nowhere near as deep an image as I'd hoped, but I had a couple of nights of good to very good seeing which helped the resolution (FWHM 1.6" to 1.8"). In the end the 340min stack was just on 2" due to a couple of average 2.4" nights.

Stars & background were just stretched with a slight unsharp mask. Layer masks on 3132 and DDP to tame the dynamic range. One image shows the near full frame down-sampled. The other is a central crop resampled 1.2x up from the original. Still trying to get SII & OIII.

GSO RC14 @f/8, QHY9 @ 0.38"/pixel, Baader Ha filter, ZWO 120MM + OAG, EQ8

Cheers

Maurice

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Wow, that's still amazingly good, far better internal detail than Trish and I achieved with the 20".

[Atmos (Colin)]

That's turned out really nice!!

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice result, Maurice. You might be able to improve it a little with gentle deconvolution?

Cheers,
Rick.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Excellent result Maurice. Nice and sharp and lots of detail.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Wow, that's still amazingly good, far better internal detail than Trish and I achieved with the 20".

Thanks Mike. The SII and OIII data is playing difficult to get though....

Originally Posted by Atmos

That's turned out really nice!!

Thank you Colin.

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice result, Maurice. You might be able to improve it a little with gentle deconvolution?

Cheers,
Rick.

Tried a bit of that Rick, just looked a bit too 'stringy' for my liking.
Maybe I was being a bit heavy handed - I'll give it another go.

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Excellent result Maurice. Nice and sharp and lots of detail.

Thanks Rodney...

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Tried a bit of that Rick, just looked a bit too 'stringy' for my liking.
Maybe I was being a bit heavy handed - I'll give it another go.

Decon does require a gentle touch to avoid the "wormy" look, Maurice.