Lagoon nebula in Halpha-Canon 300D/ED80

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Imaged over two nights-Saturday 14 July and last Saturday ..

20 x 10 minutes at ISO 800 and 14 x 3 minutes also at ISO 800

conditions-poorish, first quarter and near full moon, windy

Astronomik 13 nm H Alpha Filter
CG 5 mount autoguided (PHD)
scope-ED 80
camera-Canon 300D (modded)
Processed in Deep Sky Stacker

For a larger image -

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...8271841&size=l

for a crop from the same image

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...9266314&size=l

comments and suggestions welcome
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[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

just for fun I combined this H alpha image with OIII data I acquired last year.

This was only 50 minutes and of poor quality -star trailing and noisy-but still, here is my first colour mapped image (OIII data contributed to blue and green channels, H alpha data to red and 20 % to blue-synthetic H beta )

don't have Registar so alignment was manual; also
different star sizes in H alpha and OIII means full res image is pretty ordinary

Astronomik OIII filter, stock Canon 300D

comments and suggestions welcome

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

A very 3D like appearance. I like the coloured version, looks very cool. Well done.

[jase (Jason)]

Thoroughly enjoyed the Ha image. The culmination of 4 hours data provides a smooth, noise free appearance and is a credit to your efforts. Well done.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Thats a fine effort, you certainly extract the max out of the gear you have. Good detail, tastefull processing and excellent guiding for such long exposures.

Cheers

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Narayan, I love the black Globules in your cropped image

You have certainly got a lot of things happening correctly: Tracking/Guiding, Focus, contrast etc etc

Very nice work.

[Dietmar]

hi Narayan,

that is a very cool image!
both of them. I like the colored the most.
details are stunning and color is beautiful!

[iceman (Mike)]

Great work Narayan! You've really improved a lot in the last 12 months. Beautiful image, very 3D.

[Ric]

Lovely images Narayan, the mix of Ha & OIII is very stunning visually.

Top stuff

[gbeal]

Both are very nice, Ha is funny looking huh? I like the ability to image even when the moon is about. Nice job of combining the two as well.

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Very sharp!

I'm thinking od getting myself Ha, OIII, and SII filters to do this sort of thing.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Thanks all for your interest and comments. Not only does narrow band allow imaging on a moonlit night but even on a new moon or third quarter night, one can image from home-and that's two or three hours that can go to exposure instead of travel to a dark site.

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Truly great image mate, it is worthy of landing a cover somewhere

[skeltz (Rob)]

Narayan nice ha your proccessing is good althought looks maybe a tad sharp.i dunno just my opion .. still nice though..good one mate.