Thor's Helmet NGC2359 W/Stars

Comet Hunter

Comet Hunter

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So I retook this image capturing 12 hours of 5 min lights using the L-Optolong Extreme narrow band filter and it turns out, the original image with only 6 hours was easier to process and looked better.
The extra signal really blew out the core nebula. So for now, I guess I am done with it. although I am never really done with these things.

The interesting thing is the image shown with the attached link https://astrob.in/elk0b2/C/ was the Image of the Day in Astrobin last Dec.

Difference, they were at a dark sky site in Chili, used a mono camera with 24 hrs of data and used a telescope with a focal length if 2700 (mine is 735)

So considering, I think i am happy with my equipment taken with 6 hrs from my bortle 6 driveway.

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JimFox

JimFox

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This is really awesome Ed! I prefer the gold to the red. This really turned out well, I need to get my Thor's Helmet looking this nice, you have raised the bar I think with this.

You used the L-Enhance. One thing I need to settle on is when I will use the L-Pro and when I will use the L-Enhance. I like the broader spectrum of the L-Pro, I have felt that sometimes with the L-Enhance I am losing some color that the L-Pro is letting pass through. Though my experience is so limited at this point, I feel it's probably just my imagination. Because the L-Ultimate is even more narrow then the L-Enhance, and people seem to be putting out totally awesome images with that.

So I will be happy when I am able to get my mind wrapped around that. And then understanding am I really losing any signal with the L-Enhance? Or is it simply my lack of experience in processing in Pixinsight where I am just not getting all of the colors out that I should? That's what my mind is wrapping itself around during the day.... :)
 
Comet Hunter

Comet Hunter

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JimFox said:
This is really awesome Ed! I prefer the gold to the red. This really turned out well, I need to get my Thor's Helmet looking this nice, you have raised the bar I think with this.

You used the L-Enhance. One thing I need to settle on is when I will use the L-Pro and when I will use the L-Enhance. I like the broader spectrum of the L-Pro, I have felt that sometimes with the L-Enhance I am losing some color that the L-Pro is letting pass through. Though my experience is so limited at this point, I feel it's probably just my imagination. Because the L-Ultimate is even more narrow then the L-Enhance, and people seem to be putting out totally awesome images with that.

So I will be happy when I am able to get my mind wrapped around that. And then understanding am I really losing any signal with the L-Enhance? Or is it simply my lack of experience in processing in Pixinsight where I am just not getting all of the colors out that I should? That's what my mind is wrapping itself around during the day.... :)
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FYI, I used the L-Extreme filter
The problem with this image, I couldn't reprocess it and get the same results. I did too many trial and errors to duplicate. So ya, processing is tricky.
 
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