M16 & Pillars of Creation Hubble Palette (James R Potts)

M16 & Pillars of Creation Hubble Palette

Here is just over 20 hours of data combining images from 2 camera (a mono and a OSC) over the past 2 years. Last year I took images using my OSC and a dual NB filter. This year I switched to my mono using HSO filters. For the OSC, I extracted Ha and OIII, unfortunately, my NB filter did not allow the capture of Su emissions. But I think that ended up OK as the Su images are by far the faintest and have the least detail.

I stacked and combined all the images in APP, but did not use any of the APP edit tools, so I imported the raw fits into PI. As a side note I did try combining the images in PI, but my result was not as good or at least not what I wanted, I will need to try that again. I used DBE, BlurX, Noise X on the unstretched image, than I separated the stars with Star X. Used the generalized hyperbolic script to stretch the image, tweaked it a bit with SNR and then added the stars back with Pixel Math. I then did some touch up saturation in PS.

Not too much I can say about this area that most do not already know. The Hubble took the original iconic image of the Pillars and then the James Webb telescope added another amazing image of this star forming region.

So enjoy another image (yeah I know there are thousand of this target on Astrobin) of this amazing area.

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B

Title: Pillars different colors

Description: Here is a version I did trying to duplicate the colors from the Hubble image.

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C

Title: Revised Pillars

Description: Darkened the background and lessened the green. I think this one is a little closer to the dark green from the Hubble image. Hard to match the colors, this is about as close as I can get.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7975120
PixInsight job	MIH1REDJ0KD1KXWLTX7ELVGMMUJB2669
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	18h18m44s.517
RA (top/left)	18h18m48s.520
RA (top/right)	18h16m04s.807
RA (bottom/right)	18h18m40s.971
RA (bottom/left)	18h21m24s.529

Dec (center)	-13°48′14″.68
Dec (top/left)	-13°05′22″.87
Dec (top/right)	-14°06′30″.32
Dec (bottom/right)	-14°31′12″.80
Dec (bottom/left)	-13°29′58″.46

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