Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  IC 1824  ·  IC 1831  ·  IC 1848  ·  IC 1871  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 896  ·  Sh2-190  ·  Sh2-191  ·  Sh2-192  ·  Sh2-193  ·  Sh2-194  ·  Sh2-195  ·  Sh2-196  ·  Sh2-197  ·  Sh2-198  ·  Sh2-199  ·  Sh2-201
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Heart and Soul HOO Enhanced RGB, jimww
Powered byPixInsight

Heart and Soul HOO Enhanced RGB

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Heart and Soul HOO Enhanced RGB, jimww
Powered byPixInsight

Heart and Soul HOO Enhanced RGB

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

This is my first attempt at an HOO enhanced RGB image using the ZWO ASI094MC color camera.  An IDAS NBZ  filter was used to collect the OIII and Ha data.  An Astronomik L3 filter was used as an UV/IR blocker for the RGB data.  I wanted much more RGB data, but a poorly timed crash of Maxim DL halted my imaging session just as I started to take a nap...so I made do with 17 sub-exposures instead of 48.  A light application of Topaz Denoise AI came to the rescue.

The RGB image is the background layer in Photoshop.  I used the "lighten" blend mode for the next layer of the narrowband data.  Curves were adjusted for each layer until the blend looked good.  Noel Carboni's Star Tools plugin "Make Stars Smaller" action was used to make the numerous stars in this region less pronounced.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Heart and Soul HOO Enhanced RGB, jimww