Blue Horse Head IC4592

[Bodon (Steve)]

GDay all.
Blue Horse Head taken from my backyard from 6 Aug 24 - 8 Sep 24. Took a while to process due to weather and my PI limited skills. Was never to happy when I processed the image as it always looked dull. I had a tad of drama trying to get some colours out of my subs. Talking on Discord about astrophotography I was given some tips using Pixinsight by a young high school student named Merlin from Melb. I gave him my mono data and he went to town on it and I basically copied his colours with some of his PI tips. His PI skills are way better than mine.
Link to my horse https://astrob.in/tn2l18/0/
Link to Merlins horse https://astrob.in/b7v8ib/0/

Thanks for having a look.
Blue 40@300 sec, Green 46@300 sec, Red41@300 sec and Lum 117@300 sec.

Askar FRA500
Askar 0.7 Reducer f3.9
ZWO 2600MM
ZWO 174 Mini
WO Uniguide 50mm
ZWO Asiair Plus
ZWO EAF
SW AZEQ6
Optolong 3nm filters

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

You weren't horsing around when you took the bit between your teeth and reined in those photons! Very nice result indeed Steve.

Mike

[Bodon (Steve)]

Gave the thing some hay and it bit me on the backside...Mike, thanks for the thumbs up. Glad it did not bite you.

[Leo.G (Leo)]

That's a lovely image Steve!

[Dave882 (David)]

Steve this is wonderful! Fantastic fine detail in the wispy nebulosity and the subtle colour variations are just stunning. Well framed too. A very successful collaboration and look forward to your upcoming posts with some new PI skills in play. Great worK!!

[Bodon (Steve)]

Leo Dave; appreciate the thumbs up. Glad you liked the horse.

[ChrisV (Chris)]

That's really nice! Great processing.

[Bodon (Steve)]

Chris Thanks for the thumbs up. Glad you liked it.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

You should be very happy with that on Steve. Your effort in chasing down a good PI processing workflow have clearly paid off

[Bodon (Steve)]

Rod, appreciate the thumbs up. So many tools in PI to choose from and many I dont think I will ever know how to use...Good fun though.

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

some good fine detail. well done

[AlexN]

Incredible image Steve.
I'm a big fan of this target, and hope to get to it one year so many good things to image around that time of year!

Well done - I know how dim the blue horse is!

[Bodon (Steve)]

Paul Alex. Thanks for the thumbs up.
Correct Alex, so many to choose from. My problem this year has been the weather...great days and poor nights on the south coast. Cant get get enough subs for each filter. Im sure you will get that nag next year

[Leo.G (Leo)]

You've been getting great days?
That's where solar imaging is smart I think, we don't even get great days up the mountains very much for the past 3 or 4 years. Though often after a very cloudy evening I've noticed beautiful clear skies on some of my run to the mens room through the night after deciding it wasn't even worth taking anything out earlier, not even a camera.
Now it's cold and wet in Lithgow but the temperature change is very welcome.

[Peter Ward]

The nebulosity reminds me of "fine cotton" wool.