NGC6188 Ha

[codemonkey (Lee)]

My first narrowband integration! Very quick attempt at processing so I'll probably redo it soon.

NGC6188
Taken tonight, so ~92% full moon.
Baader 7nm Ha
Saxon ED100 with AP CCDT67 reducer at about .67x (~600mm / F6)
9x20m subs

Hoping to get some OIII tomorrow night.

[Flugel88 (Michael)]

Looking forward to seeing some colour Lee your initial Ha looks pretty good.
Is it a full image or crop?
Stars are looking very respectable unlike my own attempts.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Cheers Michael :-)

That's the full image, but I scaled it down for posting here. Original resolution is ~ 1940 x 1460

I'm pretty happy with the stars myself; PI reports a median FWHM of 2.719 and a median eccentricity of 0.434

Good to be imaging and not struggling constantly with a FWHM of 4.5+!

[carlstronomy (Carl)]

Lee

That's a cracker of an image, great detail and the focus and stars are very crisp indeed.



Carl

[RickS (Rick)]

Looking good, Lee!

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by carlstronomy

Lee

That's a cracker of an image, great detail and the focus and stars are very crisp indeed.



Carl

Thanks Carl!

Originally Posted by RickS

Looking good, Lee!

Thanks Rick!

I've now reprocessed it (a little more subtle, and better outlier rejection) and put up the full res on astrobin:

NGC6188 - Ha

[multiweb (Marc)]

That turned out really good. Like the framing too. Looking forward to the color.

[Robert9 (Robert)]

Fabulous Lee. I'll be very interested to see how it turns out with colour.
Robert

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

That turned out really good. Like the framing too. Looking forward to the color.

Thanks Marc; the colour should be fun, I've only ever played around trying to process narrowband as colour once, and never with my own data. Fingers crossed the sky clears like it's supposed to tonight.

Originally Posted by Robert9

Fabulous Lee. I'll be very interested to see how it turns out with colour.
Robert

Thanks Robert!