Elephant Trunk nebula OSC Narrowband

[JohnDeathridge]

Elephant Trunk nebula using Optolong L extreme dual narrowband filter. First go at using an OSC narrowband filter and processing a Hubble type scheme in PixInsight. Of course no sulphur so this is primarily HOO as opposed to SHO but the colours come out pretty well with Curves.

[Carole]

This has come out really well. 

Normally when l see dual band images in HOO there is no blue. 

What channels were the filters applied to?

Carole

[JohnDeathridge]

Hi Carole sorry busy weekend. So simply put this is a sort of SHO using a sudo blue which is created by splitting the l extreme into RGB removing the blue as its not very good and creating a new blue by combing Red and Green and then recombining. PixInsight has this  great process called pixelmath that allows you to perform a number of tricky functions including channel merging and adding stars back to an image one removed. Of course I have to up the colours such as yellow etc to increase the colour saturation and  depth PixInsight has this process called Curves which is great.

[Roberto]

You are doing excellently John!  That's a great image and you have really mastered your camera and filters.  Well done indeed 👌

Roberto

[garrick]

Very fine image.

Clear skies

GW

[Hugh]

Very dramatic image!

My pareidolia has kicked in and I can see an animal face/ dog like with the dark area lower right centre being the nose and then two eyes either side higher up?

~ Hugh

[Carole]

 

[The Thing]

Woof woof, me too! Nice doggy.