Wizard Nebula NGC 7380 Ha

[Carole]

Thanks Robert,  I have tried both ways now and it doesn't seem to make any difference so long as the combi layer is in RGB. 

Well I've tried Hubble and the result is revolting, I cannot seem to get the 3 colours to blend well together with the stars looking decent, so i tried bicolour, which is a bit better.

The best result has come out in false colour, but I think I need to get a lot more data to make this look anything like respectable.  I'll post the result in the next post.

Meanwhile Chris requested I post up my stacked data.  As I say I don't think there is enough of it, and possibly I need a lot more shorter subs to overlap the noise - advice gratefully received on this.

These are the links:

Ha 1.75 hours in 15 minutes subs (
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5730788/Wizard%20Nebula%20Dec%202012%20NB/Wizard%20Ha%201.12.12%20900secs%20x%2011%20desktop.TIF

Oiii Only one hour so far in 20minute subs (3)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5730788/Wizard%20Nebula%20Dec%202012%20NB/Wizard%20Oiii%203%20x%201200secs%205.12.12.TIF

Sii 2 hours in 15min subs (
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5730788/Wizard%20Nebula%20Dec%202012%20NB/Wizard%20Sii%20900secs%20x%208%20on%205-12-12.TIF

[Carole]

This is the HaRGB false colour result.  I cannot seem to get the stars to uniformly line up in the different filters.  They line up one side of the image and not the other, same kit
i.e. bottom left on this image red sits on top green below.  
Middle seems OKish
Top right of image green sits on top and red below.
Any idea why this is happening. Maybe there is some slight rotation, but I can't do any more than align two opposite stars in Maxim.

Image removed until I've done a bit more learning 

[RobertM]

Yuk, it's horribly blurred - what have you done to it