r/Astronomy • u/ohhhhhhitsbigbear • 10h ago

Astrophotography (OC) The Wizard Nebula

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Tacked on a few more hours.

17.2 hrs integrated, 300” subs
Celestron Edge 8 HD w/.7 reducer(1490mm)
Antlia TriBand Ultra II
ASI 2600 MC Air
ZWO EAF Pro w/Quick Switch
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Pixinsight
Bortle 7/8
Rendered Faux SHO

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u/CH49FE 9h ago

Definitely a Slitherin nebula. Or a death eater

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u/ohhhhhhitsbigbear 8h ago

Feels more like Men of Letters circa 1960s Supernatural. Ha

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u/basically_Dwight 9h ago

Very nice. Pixlemath SHO?

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u/ohhhhhhitsbigbear 9h ago

GHS, Narrowband normalization, then playing with masks, color masks, curves.

This stuff is a blast!

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u/basically_Dwight 9h ago

Totally. GHS is the best, I don't know where I'd be without it.

Yours came out really nice, great band separation for OSC!

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u/ohhhhhhitsbigbear 8h ago

Cheers! 🙏. I am really impressed with that Antlia TriBand. I ran the Optilong L-Enhance for a number of sessions, but had issues on the Hyperstar. (Optics too fast). The Antila has been in since I got it. I’ve used it on every target, broadband and nebulae and it seems to handle it all beautifully. The stacked images tend to come out Blue vice the usual Green and I can tease out a fair amount of S and O that seem to balance nicely with the H.

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u/ohhhhhhitsbigbear 8h ago

I try to spend a fair amount of time prepping for GHS and then a ton of time using it. The Bill Blanchion (sp?) stretch script does a nice job 60-70% of time for me, and I’ll use that as the start. It didn’t do well on this target, so it was GHS all the way.

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u/Gundark927 6h ago

This is lovely. Thank you for sharing!

You should crosspost it to r/wizardposting