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Old 25-04-2021, 01:34 PM
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Great Balls of Fire! NGC3324 [fixed] in SHO

After the previous 3 months of some of the most appalling always cloudy weather, the last month I have been literally gorging on clear skies and with narrowband filters even the moon can not dampen my spirits.

Like a flaming canonball NGC 3324 [fixed - thanks chris] appears to explode outwards from the eta carina nebula

High Res on Astrobin https://astrob.in/zyws09/0/

I've reverted to the straight TS flat here on the APM130 at 780mm FL.

Around 7 hours of integration taken over 3 nights (Carina setting earlier these nights). Could image a bit longer each evening, but I've been using the other 2/3 of the nights on a Prawn Project...hoping to get it well cooked in a day or two. Losing a few more subs than I'd like as guiding a bit more challenging at 780mm compared to 585mm.

Stacked and combined in APP mapping Ha, OIII, and SII in SHO and adding both OIII and SII as 80% green.

Then separately processed and combined the Ha OIII and SII layers in startools also in SHO.

To get more natural star colours (APP) I aligned the results from APP and Startools in PS and adjusted opacity till I got a compromise I liked. Final process to taste in PS using astronomy tools plug ins and selective colour mask adjustments.
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Old 25-04-2021, 03:05 PM
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Cool work Robert Gabriela is always so mystical and intriguing...

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Old 25-04-2021, 04:41 PM
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Great image, but it's NGC3324. NGC3293 is the nice cluster just a bit to the right of your image.
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Old 25-04-2021, 11:34 PM
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Cool work Robert Gabriela is always so mystical and intriguing...

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Have just spent an hour trying to figure out how NGC3324 came by the name Gabriela Mistral Nebula.
Still no clue, but Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (her real name) won a Nobel prize in literature.
Maybe she wrote a poem about the stars?

Nice work Rob
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Old 25-04-2021, 11:56 PM
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Have just spent an hour trying to figure out how NGC3324 came by the name Gabriela Mistral Nebula.
Still no clue,
Gabby: https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/148914445

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Old 26-04-2021, 08:15 AM
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Great image, but it's NGC3324. NGC3293 is the nice cluster just a bit to the right of your image.
thanks Chris - fixed over at astrobin. Appreciate the pickup.
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thanks Mike - well I've learned something new which is always a good thing
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Old 26-04-2021, 08:18 AM
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Have just spent an hour trying to figure out how NGC3324 came by the name Gabriela Mistral Nebula.
Still no clue, but Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (her real name) won a Nobel prize in literature.
Maybe she wrote a poem about the stars?

Nice work Rob
thanks Peter. Mike has educated me on this one
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