M27 LRGB , LRGB-HSO, and SHO with RGB stars (Pam Whitfield)

M27 LRGB , LRGB-HSO, and SHO with RGB stars

Still managing to get some imaging done :-)
Difficult to believe I haven't done the Dumb-bell since 2015 when I used a 80mm scope and DSLR!

Longer evenings make accumulating a decent amount of time on a target less of a pain so there is about 4hrs on this from 2 nights. I decided to stick with LRGB for the time being as it's easier to get a decent number full subs when partly cloudy.

I should have a play to get the star sizes to match properly on each channel - however the image does pick out the colour constrast in different shells of gas quite nicely.
The image is cropped in quite a bit so is x2 drizzled.

If I'm lucky I can add a bit more time on it as well as the other target I'm working on.....

second image adds narrowband data

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Description: I collected some narrowband data over a couple of nights and tried a combination with LRGB-HSO in APP. There's about 2hrs of Ha and 1.5hrs each of Oiii and Sii.
Some of the fainter surrounding nebulosity is starting to appear so it's definitely getting there....
I think I'm going to keep playing and try processing the nebula and stars separately and recombining.

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Description: Dipping my toes into Pixinsight so it seemed like the time for a bit of an experiment!
This image used Starnet++ on the APP stacks to separate the nebula from the stars and then recombined the SHO nebula with the RGB stars. It's a very different look from what I normally do but it really emphasizes the nebula over the multitude of stars.

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Description: That's better figured out some of the pixelmath syntax :-)

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Description: Background not so clipped on this one and a better balance between the stars and nebula

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Astrometry.net job	5029396
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	19h59m30s.70
RA (top/left)	20h01m12s.94
RA (top/right)	20h01m11s.99
RA (bottom/right)	19h57m46s.13
RA (bottom/left)	19h57m48s.69

Dec (center)	+22°45′29″.9
Dec (top/left)	+22°13′40″.4
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