IC1396 in HST palette

[Paramount]

Hi
The good weather continued for a bit and I was able to get three nights to tackle this colourful object. It was taken with the FSQ106ED at f5, FLI PL16803 on a Paramount ME. Exposures are 8x30 minutes Ha, 7x30 minutes OIII and 5x30 minutes SII (cloud interrupted the last evening). The OIII and SII are quite weak here and had to be stretched more than the Ha. I could have done with more sub frames but I am pleased with the overall result. I tried this 3 years ago with a Starlight H36 and this can be seen for comparison on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk
There is a larger version of this at the following link
http://www.pbase.com/imaging_the_hea...51650/original
Thanks for looking
Clear skies and best wishes
Gordon

[jase (Jason)]

Great work, Gordon! Really enjoy the colours you've brought out. If you haven't already done so, you may want to consider sum combining the OIII and SIII data to get as much signal as possible. May need to go a slightly harder on the data rejection to compensate compared to a mean or median combine. This may get you a more desirable result providing better data to work with. In any case 5x30min subs for SII I think would have been ample for this target at F/5. Pleased you are getting some clear skies over summer. Thanks for sharing, more please.