Heart & Fishhead Nebula in simulated HOO - GT81 (Jeff Culp)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1795 · IC 1805 · NGC 896

Heart & Fishhead Nebula in simulated HOO - GT81, Jeff Culp

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Heart & Fishhead Nebula in simulated HOO - GT81

I attempted to shoot this region over multiple nights using my GT81 "wide angle" scope. However, after only one night I was able to use 38 subs. Leaving my scope set up in the backyard and covered, I started my 2nd night of imaging and discovered my ASI 2600MC Pro camera was only capturing the green channel. No amount of troubleshooting was able to determine any external cause, leaving me to think it's the camera that failed. Unfortunately I now need to return it for repair. Hopefully it won't involve months of waiting. This then is my last image using this camera I fear for a long time. Still, I'm pleased with way it turned out, even in Bortle 5 skies. I've not been a fan of anything other than true-color images (hence my MC camera choice), however, I'm slowly warming up to going mono in the future with images coming out like this.

I used Bill's HOO PixInsight script to modify the color assignments, which is quick and easy (too easy??). Thanks, Bill! My attempts to use the SHO script is not met with a lot of enthusiasm yet, but it may just be my choice of objects. Maybe I'll stick with a color camera after all? Something that is always on my mind is that I live in the Puget Sound area (near Seattle) and the high number of cloudy nights are limiting imaging time, so I have to make the best of the time I have. Plus I still work and have a family. Time - the one commodity none of us have enough of, I think... Yet, in DSO, we only deal with imaging objects that now don't exist in our own time, but rather looking back in thousands or millions of years prior. Funny that our hobby uses seconds and minutes to capture millions of years of history!

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