Inside The Heart Nebula Reprocessed

Hi all,

With amazing clear skies all this week, a very rare event for us I was able to do a lot of imaging. Most of it was all in H Alpha due to a very bright Moon.
But last night the 11/12th the moon was just 49% Sunlit so I took a chance on getting color for one of the projects. I was working on Melotte15 which is in the center of the heart nebula that lies in Cassiopeia. Hope you like the image PLEASE CLiCK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE

DETAILS
The Image was taken between 11th 12th & 13 of September 2009 with a William's Optics FLT-110 Triple APO refractor Atik 4000 ccd camera. @ - 25 Degrees. Guided with a Celestron 80ED and Sac 4.2 ccd camera with phd guiding software On a CGE mount L=HA (420m), R=R+HA =(60m, 60m), G(120m), B(120m) Processed in images plus V3.5 and Photoshop CS3 & maxImum DL.

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Carl O'Beirnes,
Balbriggan Observatory (MPC#J09)

Superb result Carl. All these clear nights is like being in a sweet shop after closing.

Thanks mate,

I know what you mean I've never been so tired I've imaged every part of the sky this week loads of processing to do I go to bed at 6am then back up at 7am with the kids a well.

Ps Mr Dave McDonald,

Before you ask the reason I've not been looking for NEO is because I'm weighting on some new gear for the 14" OTA so don't go telling the MPC:whistle::whistle: :grouphug:

Carl.

Super image Carl. Well done mate.

Hi all,

Well I wasn't to happy with the way the first image turned out. I thought I could get a better result from 15 hours worth of data. So I reprocessed the image. The dark halos are now gone around the stars. I did a lot of extra work on the H Alpha luminance to bring out more detail I used Noel Carboni local contrast enhancement in photoshop actions witch did a great job of bringing out lot's more detail in the H Alpha luminance. Anyway here is the final result. Your comments are always welcome.


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Carl.

Excellent image there Carl... well done again