Trapezium Resolved (Debra Ceravolo)

Trapezium Resolved

Using the 16 inch Boller & Chivens telescope at f/18, the resolution of 0.13 arc seconds per pixel was realized because of one night of perfect seeing. I tried several nights without success and this was the best that could be done with this set up.
H-alpha, H-beta, OIII and NII filters were used, each using 20 - one minute subs and colour mapped according to each of their wavelength.
RGB stars are each 100 seconds total using 1 second subs. This is why there are few stars visible, no star reduction was done.
A gentle BlurX was used for deconvolution but I had to be careful as the BlurX wanted to emphasize small faint Proplyds near the Trapezium and make them look like bright stars!
A word of advice with BlurX, use a very light touch and check your image carefully for introduced artifacts. It can make oblong stars look nice and round and can also make oblong proplyds look nice and round...

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