kiwiapple
Well-Known Member
Yesterday afternoon a new filter I had ordered just a week before arrived from Australia, a Tri-band filter that was meant to allow me to use a colour camera to capture emission targets like nebulae. Up until now, I had relegated my new 8" reflector with its one-shot colour camera to shooting galaxies, star clusters and the like (targets that emit light in RGB, essentially), so I was eager to see whether I could now also use it for more interesting (to me, anyway) targets.
Clouds kept me from getting started until close to 10pm, and they rolled back in at around 4am, so I only had six hours or so to play with. I started off with M16 (the Eagle Nebula), getting a nice close-in view of the famed "Pillars of Creation", which I think turned out pretty well. So this was compiled from 18 600-second images, stitched with the concomitant calibration frames in Pixinsight.
Clouds kept me from getting started until close to 10pm, and they rolled back in at around 4am, so I only had six hours or so to play with. I started off with M16 (the Eagle Nebula), getting a nice close-in view of the famed "Pillars of Creation", which I think turned out pretty well. So this was compiled from 18 600-second images, stitched with the concomitant calibration frames in Pixinsight.
