December: Test shots with new scopes/mounts
Dec 21: TMB 80/480 Arrives!
Dec 3: AP1200 Arrives!
Nov 30: TMB 152/1200 Arrives!
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This is NGC 7635, aka, the “Bubble Nebula”, an emission nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeiae. This is the first tricolor narrowband image with my new AP 160 Starfire EDF refractor.
Mousing off the image reveals a “Hubble Palette” narrowband image, with
Even after 8 hours of Sii data and 7 hours of Oiii, the image was still fairly noisy in those channels, so I replaced the luminance with the Hα image and cranked the color saturation a little. This really tamed the noise while preserving the essence of the tricolor image.
A higher resolution image is also available. North is up.