{"id":54,"date":"2007-12-27T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:03:26","slug":"ic1805-hahargb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"IC1805 Ha\/(HaR)GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as the chances of me getting any images this week looked particularly slim, I decided it was time to have a decent play with blending Ha data into RGB. I`ve done this a few times over the last few weeks, but never realy been happy with the results. Also, processing it on the 1Gb laptop wasnt helping much, I was spending more time waiting for PSCS to stop swapping than actually doing anything useful. So, I have just spent 90 minutes or so playing with the following data to create my first Ha blended image that I`m happy with.<\/p>\n<p>I do note that the difference between my laptop screen and my desktop screen is quite large, but as most of the images I see from others look better on my laptop, thats the one I use for the final colour balance and stuff. Apologies if this image looks far too &#8220;overly red&#8221; or far too &#8220;washed out salmon pink&#8221; on your screen.<\/p>\n<p>OTA: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + 0.8 FR\/FF<br \/>\nGuiding: NS8GPS @ f\/10 + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nRGB Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 10 x 900s, CLS filter<br \/>\nHa Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL,8 x 900s, Astronomik Ha 13nm<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools (Ha as ~60% luminance, Ha\/Red = 80%\/20%)<\/p>\n<p>Note: The RGB data for this is slightly flawed, due to the fact that my imaging train wasnt perfectly aligned (doh!)&#8230; the RGB stars on the left of the image are larger than on the right.<\/p>\n<p>(Click on image for larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ic\/ic1805_20071227_hahargb.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ic\/ic1805_20071227_hahargb_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as the chances of me getting any images this week looked particularly slim, I decided it was time to have a decent play with blending Ha data into RGB. I`ve done this a few times over the last few weeks, but never realy been happy with the results. Also, processing it on the 1Gb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}