Probably my most “ambitious” processing effort to date. I have to admit to having a love hate relationship with Pixinsight. I have spent almost as much time processing this as collecting the data! My processing skills still leave a lot to be desired and I spent a lot of time watching videos trying to understand the basics of the processing side. Learnt and employed quite a few new things as part of processing this image including learning more how to use the history explorer when I had to redo stuff!
I have several Youtube people to thank that helped me out with their videos, the efforts some of these guys put in to developing things and then communicating them is astounding. I also signed up with Adam Block a couple of months back and there were quite a few things I got from his videos as well.
The colours are based on a SHO combination with tweaking using pixel maths from Bill (AnotherAstroChannel). Really strong Sii signal for this target and that is seen in the purple area.
I reduced the RGB stars a little before combining them with the NB image.
I didn’t collect much luminance so have not used any in the final image, not sure if I should be creating a Lum channel and combining that in LRGBCombination?
About 31hrs of data. Pretty happy with how the collection went. FSQ106 and ASI1600mm pro. Ha, Oii and Sii filters about 10hrs each with 5min subs and then a bit of RGB as well to do the stars. Flats and DarkFlats and Darks done. The Sii signal seemed to be very strong in this object especially around the core.
Thanks for looking. Appreciate any feedback.
Pretty tough to get these images down to 200kb for the site.
Here is a link to a bigger image
https://brettparnell.myportfolio.com...es-for-viewing
Brett
