Running chicken in RGB-SHO

[The_bluester (Paul)]

It has been a long time between drinks for me, putting an image up here. I Have been working on this one since early March when it was a fill in target to keep the scope going rather than chasing my previous target down to the horizon.

This is 20 X 120 secon RGB subs, 62 X 300 second HA, 56 X 300 second Sii and 116 X 300 second Oiii. Integrated in Astro Pixel processor and the RGB image generated there before everything was saved as Tif files, the stars removed from the NB images with Starnet++ before assembling it all in Photoshop as SHO-RGB, with selective colour used to remap the results to a more aesthetically pleasant palette than the SHO Green orange and blurk.

Astrobin version here https://www.astrobin.com/niod41/

[PKay (Peter)]

A very nice chicken Paul.

All that hard work has paid off and you should be very happy!

Great effort

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

A really good chicken there Paul, always nice to see it framed and presented to see the full chicken flapping along... lots of nebulosity outside the usual areas too

Mike

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Lovely chicken mate
I'm currently working on a close up version but can't quite get the same colours.

[The_bluester (Paul)]

Thank you all, I am really happy with how this one came out. I still need to really dial in the reducer for spacing and tilt as a bit of pixel peeping will reveal, but the slightly wonky stars in the corners are not intrusive enough to offend me. The combination of the ASI2600 (APS-C) and 80mm+ reducer gives a really nice FOV, I have found it to frame familiar objects in a way that lets me present them a little differently to usual so I try to do that.

Nik, that was SHO mapping of the NB data but a fair bit of work in Photoshop to reassign the resulting colours to something more pleasing. I have stayed away from tricolour NB until now as I always find the resulting palette fairly unpleasant in an RGB based image and I didn't have the skills honed to use selective colour to adjust them to something more appealing. I guess I don't have that excuse any more.

Mike, yes, I thought long and hard how to present the background, there is quite a bit of widespread HA and Oiii, less so Sii and I really wanted to have it showing in the image. I ended up needing to shoot a couple of extra nights to get more Oiii or it just turned in to a noisy mess.

[JA]

Wonderful Stuff

Best
JA

[Addos (Adam)]

cracker, well done!

[Startrek (Martin)]

Paul,
Nice to see the full chook
Lovely image , details and colours are great
Cheers
Martin

[The_bluester (Paul)]

Thanks again all.

Looking at this section of the forum, IIS could start a poultry farm at the moment. I have never seen so many chooks in once place!

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 Beautifully done.