I could have names this the
Almost Impossible Cocoon Nebula. the long story...starts with me loving some recent posts of this nebula especially the light gas that's like silk around a cocoon. Also, I liked images showing the dark trail...I imagine the Cocoon traveling through the liquid of space pushing the stars out of the way as it travels onward (yeah I know that's not the case). I imaged in RGB from my backyard (bortel 6) the first night July 30; good guiding and 6 hours of subs. Integrating resulted in good star color, bright red nebula bu absolution no silk. Thinking I needed more data, next night the same RGB but added Luminance (Astrodon L2P). Same poor integration result even after trying many different processing workflows. Thinking well I must need narrowband next night 6 hours of Ha, Oiii, Sii. Nope, no silk even after trying many different combinations. Well this was not going to defeat me so one more night of LRGB. Many different processing flows including blending Ha with RGB. I had over 25 hours of subs at this point. I gave up for a night, but then went up to Mt Pinos for the coming new moon. I thought what the heck I'll get more LRGB. The resulting image, this post, is purely the 6 hours of subs from up here. A straight RGB image, no luminance as didn't help, no Ha. I realize that I can improve this image with more data and some Ha blending but I'm so done with the Coonon for this year!
R = 15, G = 15, B = 15, all times 300 seconds.
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