I took this a while ago. I added to it as clear nights became available.
9 hours and 10 minutes of narrowband plus some colour. I played with the colour palette for a while and settled on this which is a bit unusual but I thought it looked the best of the versions I made.
I like the tendrilled nebula the best. It looks like the jellyfish nebula in the northern hemisphere nebulas we don't see here.
Very sharp and very nicely detailed, Greg. Well processed. Nice balance between faint features and bright detail.
The unusual colour mapping caused us to look at in a fresh light, which was fun.
What colours have you mapped H-alpha and OIII to? Our guess is blue for H-alpha and a sort of salmon for OIII.
Thanks Mike. Its green to Ha red to S11 and blue to O111 as usual but then some shifts per the modified Hubble palette of Rob Franke I think it was and then some tweaking using the selective colour tool, extra blending layers.
Well that's a sexy image isn't it!
Deep, moody & spot on with your choice of colour in the saturated version
You've gotta be happy with that
Thanks Andy. High praise from you and Slawomir - the local narrowband kings of the trade!
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
The second version with more saturated colours is even better, I reckon it deserves a quality print and some space on a wall in the living room
Thanks for that. It turned out good in the end. I took a long time to process it to where I was happy. I have found a number of my imaging projects are a bit stalled as the processing doesn't go to a place where I am happy.
PixInsight has been helpful in a few of those.