Hoegaarden Astronomy & Photography
Final version of M27, in total 18.5 hrs of imaging were used, spread over multiple nights end of August and beginning of September 2019. Transparency in Meldert was often bad with high cloud layers, and an sqm not going above 20. This is my first Narrow-Band image! Based on processing from Marc Verhoeven All details on Astrobin
And this is a processing from Marc Verhoeven
I’m not sure what to think of this image. There’s a fair amount of detail, also the outer regions are visible. It’s fake colors anyway so I tried to balance colers for an esthetic appearance combined with a maximum of detail. The thing is, when you look at the individual B/W images, they seem far better in terms of quality, smoothness, noise and detail. It’s when combing them into color that they suddenly require maximal processing to get something out of it.
Skies were not very good, lot’s of high altitude clouds and contrails. The data has been gathered over maybe 6 or 7 nights for the past weeks.
I have RED and GREEN filtered data still that I did not use in this combination. The total integration time is over 18 hours. I guess lots of rain and clouds should come over to get me reprocessing again? I’m not sure what to think of this image. There’s a fair amount of detail, also the outer regions are visible. It’s fake colors anyway so I tried to balance colers for an esthetic appearance combined with a maximum of detail. The thing is, when you look at the individual B/W images, they seem far better in terms of quality, smoothness, noise and detail. It’s when combing them into color that they suddenly require maximal processing to get something out of it.
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