IC1848 in HST palette

[Paramount]

Hi
The weather has again been a pain so this is another image which ahs taken several weeks to complete, it is of IC1848 (soul or foetus nebula) using the HST palette so SII:Ha:OIII = R:G:B. It was taken with a FSQ106ED at f5 and FLI ML8300 on a Paramount ME. Exposure details are as follows
SII 20x30 minutes
Ha 13x30 minutes
OIII 5x30 minutes
All sub frames were calibrated in Maxim DL5, images registered with Registar, stacking and pre-stretching to 16 bit tiff in Maxim DL5 and then colour combined and processed in Photoshop CS5. Processing consisted of levels, curves, contrast adjustments and selective colour
I first tried this over 4 years ago and that attempt can be seen on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk for comparison.
There is a full size version of this at the following link
http://www.pbase.com/imaging_the_hea...38479/original
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon

[Ross G]

A very good photo Gordon.

Great detail.


Ross.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Great image Gordon; nice details and colour processing. You're in the UK I see - do you get many clear nights over the course of a year?

[Paramount]

Hi David
Our weather over here is very unpredictable, our weather forecasters can't seem to predict the weather accurately, in fact I would go as far as saying that they can't even forecast yesterdays weather accurately. Over the last 2 months we've had only a handful of clear nights where I live and I was working on some of them, currently I'm lucky to complete one narrow band image per month
Best wishes
Gordon