NGC 6357 The Lobster Nebula

[batema (Mark)]

Hi,

I'm off to Astrofest today so I thought I would have one final check of equipment.

Taken with Williams Optics Flt 110 and Qhy-9 at -20c. Guided with PHD and stacked usind DSS then aligning in Photoshop and processing.

9 x 10 Min Luminence at 1x1 bining, then 10 x 4 Min 2x2 bining RGB. Will try to get some Ha data tomorrow night.

Any advice welcome.

Mark

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Looking good, be interesting to see if ha data has any more effect, you seem to have heaps already.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great colours and details. Not sure but it doesn't look like you used flats. That would increase your contrast 10 folds. Top shot though.