Mufasa Nebula (aka Gabriela Mistral) 34 hours

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

This is my take on the Gabriela Mistral Nebula using the SHO colour palette, using the excellent image by Mike and Trish as a processing guide.

Red: 13 hours SII (12nm Astronomik)
Green: 10.75 hours Ha (6nm Astronomik)
Blue: 10.5 hours OIII (12nm Astronomik)

Telescope: Vixen VC200L @ f6.4
Mount: NEQ6
Camera: SBIG ST10XE, 15min subs

Hi res here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/285939/0/

With this orientation and framing the image reminded me of Mufasa from Disney's "The Lion King". What do you think?

[Atmos (Colin)]

Looks pretty good Richard
Got some funkiness going on with the brighter stars and diffraction spikes

[Octane (Humayun)]

Beautiful work, Richard.

H

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Looks pretty good Richard
Got some funkiness going on with the brighter stars and diffraction spikes

The ST10XE is a NABG camera, so the brighter stars exhibit blooming.

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Beautiful work, Richard.

H

Thanks H

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Great work, Richard. Colour looks excellent to us. As you said, the North-Up orientation tells a very different story. The mega-data approach has captured pretty much all of the nebulosity.

Cheers!
M & T

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Thanks Mike & Trish. I've put together a true colour version as well, using the original SHO image as luminance plus 160mins of colour data collected using a second 200f4 scope with a QHY10

[RickS (Rick)]

I like the true colour version, Richard.

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Thanks Rick. I'm leaning that way myself