Preview: Artifact of the Thunder God: Thor's Helmet

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Canis Major (CMa) · Contains: NGC 2359

Preview: Artifact of the Thunder God: Thor's Helmet, Bill Long - Dark Matters Astrophotography

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For this one I pulled out the data we have for this target, which is only 4 total hours split across HA and OIII to see what I could do with some extended time working with it. This is on the heels of a project kicking off on the scope to get about 30 hours total time, which will greatly improve the signal.

However, this result is pretty fantastic, IMHO, for the short integration as is. A rotated crop is the main image with a more traditional framing. I personally find the full field to be a bit more majestic in terms of the colors contrasting with the sky and the stars. This is included as a revision.

For the color, I turned to NB Color Mapper. After seeing the results I was able to obtain on some older data, and me knowing that a more purple-ish Thor's Helmet results from RGB imaging, I wanted to see what this blend would do on this. I was pleasantly surprised that only small changes were needed, mostly to the Midtones for HA and OIII to get the color blend I wanted. This target is very nice to shoot bicolor as both the HA and OIII are very strong.

For the stars, I do have RGB star shots for this, but I wanted to try out the same script I used on other HOO images to see how well the stars would come out with a synthetic blend. They came out wonderfully and do not look different from the RGB stars much at all.

Overall, I am very pleased and looking forward to the even larger integration of this we have planned.

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