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Rosette, Canon 500mm dual narrowband, TStew
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Rosette, Canon 500mm dual narrowband

Revision title: Rosette Ha-HOO

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Rosette, Canon 500mm dual narrowband

Revision title: Rosette Ha-HOO

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The Rosette, one of my favorite emission nebulas as a newby a year ago since it was bright enough to capture good detail with my stock Canon 60D and 400mm lens. This time around I wanted to see how much more I could get after I modified my 60D for full spectrum, and using my biggest lens (Canon 500mm f4) with a dual narrowband filter (IDAS NBZ). I'm pretty happy with the results! This lens has quite a bit of coma though, so star shapes aren't good. I shot them through the narrowband filter anyhow so their colors aren't perfect either. I may yet try and take RGB stars with a different lens and combine.

I did 3 versions of the Rosette, the first using the RGB channels as is, the second as Ha-HOO and lastly an HHO version which looked kind of weird and I am only allowed two uploads so didn't include that one. Between the two included here, I cannot decide which version I like better. I think I kind of prefer the 'original' version, its a bit more natural, stars came out much better, though I do like the greater color contrast that's in the second one so I marked it as final.

Edit: I originaly showed only about 4hrs of exposure. I think I forgot to include the second day in the stats, I went back in and beleive I have it correct now, about 8hrs of exposure.

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Title: Rosette Ha-HOO

Description: Edited in HOO palette with Ha as luminance layer.

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Rosette, Canon 500mm dual narrowband, TStew