Saturday, September 18, 2010
NGC 7000, the "North America" nebula reprocessed
I did this one again. I carried away with processing of the first version in previous post.
I never should do processing after a sleepless night of imaging!
NOTE. Less compressed images in my portfolio:
(Google blog compress images a lot and coursing artifacts.)
Close up of the NGC 7000, the "North America" nebula.
Image is composed from O-III and H-a narrowband channels to a bi-color image.
This palette is close to a visiblel spectrum.
I'll shoot more O-III and S-II for this, to build a HST-palette image, later.
I'll shoot more O-III and S-II for this, to build a HST-palette image, later.
An experimental starless image. Stars are removed in one processing step and placed back with zero data lost. Sometimes I publish an image with a reduced stars to show the actual nebula better. It looks kind of nice, or spooky, that's a matter of taste.
A wide field image of NGC 7000 complex, the area of interest is marked with a gray border.
Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9 Guiding, SXV-AO @ 6Hz
Image Scale, 0,75 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures H-alpha 15x1200s, binned 1x1=5h
O-III 1x1200s binned 3x3
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