This shot came from a stupid mistake one night, but sometimes good things come from mistakes. I shot this target over several nights in the last 2 months. On one night, I accidentally shot 2.5 hours of unfiltered OSC data, and failed to rotate the camera to match the framing of the rest of data set, and it could not be used in the processing of the intended image. I almost threw this "mistake" data away, but thought it might be worth processing on its own anyway for a natural, RGB-only image with a different point of view. I processed the rest of the data set already and posted it a few days ago as an HaRGB image, but returned to the garbage data for a second look.
Here, I processed the "mistake" data. I was pleasantly surprised with the result, despite the short integration time, and it illustrates the difference achieved with a OSC camera versus monochrome HaRGB data under dark skies (see separate image in my gallery for comparison). The colors are more natural and varied here than in the image enhanced with Ha data. The results speak to the benefit of shooting under Bortle 1 skies, and, as Bob Ross always said, "we don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents!"
Lastly, big thanks go to
@Gary Imm for pointing out Bran 22C in this image, which is the beautiful reflection nebula within LDN 1664.
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