NGC7380 Wizard--first SHO image! (Norman Hey)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: NGC 7380

NGC7380 Wizard--first SHO image!, Norman Hey

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NGC7380 Wizard--first SHO image!

After a long frustrating and boring time getting Ha and Oiii filters, I finally got some time and clear skies to try to create my first narrowband image using an SHO palette. I started this target as part of the Beginning DSI Challenge on CloudyNights, but really only managed to get a decent amount of time just a few days ago. I have read a bunch on how to go about processing these, but am not following any particular instruction set. I have processed each master with DBE, deconvolution and RC-NXT, then stretched each one to taste with GHS and Curves, trying to get the sort of average background about the same for each, just sort of eyeballing it I further noise reduce then work on each master with MMT and /or LHE, then combined them using the SHO-AIP script Final saturations and contrast touches using starless versions of the various masters and the DarkStructureEnhance script. I would like to replace the stars with RGB--that will have to wait at least til this month's lunar spotlight turns down a bit.

Not the greatest image, but at least it is a decent start. It seems that the possible ways of combining and blending the S, H and O are just about endless and seem to be purely personal taste. I kind of like the blue-goldy look but will have to play around and see what else I like.

Ha: 300s x 38 3.2 h
Oiii: 300s x 64 5.3 h
Sii: 300s x 47 3.9 h
total integration 12.4 h, over multiple nights Aug/Sep 2022

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