Imagine imaging DSO's with a One Shot colour camera but with the added detail of Narrowband.
Here we have my interpretation of the classic M16 a "natural" palette, with the Sii on a 'ultrared', Ha in red and Oiii in green and blue channels with RGB star colours.
I used a few masks to bring as much LUM detail from the HA & S2 to the pillars themselves, turned out ok considering my location!
Approx 11 hrs of data from with processing inspired by Jose Carballada.
Taken from my light polluted suburban backyard, Bortle 7 - Lockdown #6 (yes 6!) Melbourne Australia.
PS: Took a while to get the data for this one as Kstars/Ekos/Stellarmate & I have been mutually respective adversaries for a year now, since Lockdown#1.
Despite various crashes & bugs, overall it's been pretty awesome using automation & most of the issues were caused by user error ie: mine!
After the latest upgrade to SM 1:5:9, I couldn't get plate solving to work. Many wasted nights later I reached out to Jasem (the software developer) in Kuwait.
He solved them personally by team viewer last week!
Seems I was missing two critical index files that I hadn't downloaded, which for reasons of size, weren't included in the system upgrade.
Jasem patiently worked it though & tested it all with me for 2-3 hours, at no charge. All fixed now, I'm a happy guy again - how's that for service? 😇
I've since purchased a second card to loaded up with all these correct settings as a backup! 😀
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