{"id":61,"date":"2008-01-25T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T12:22:53","slug":"ngc1499-and-ngc2024b33-in-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"NGC1499 and NGC2024\/B33 in Ha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another full moon imaging session, so the Hydrogen Alpha filter came out to play. Neither of these images had enough subs to make them smooth and noise free, but I was fighting my kit all night, so I`m glad I managed to get something to show for the evenings work. The use of flats is HIGHLY recommended, the amount of detail I can now bring out in my images is greatly improved, and I`m not fighting any vignetting gradients anymore.<\/p>\n<p>First up, NGC1499 California Nebula<\/p>\n<p>OTA: NS8GPS @ f\/2 (Hyperstar v3)<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nRGB Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 8x600s, Astronomik 13nm Ha<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker (3x drizzle)<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image for the larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20080124.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20080124.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20080124_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you compare the above image with the version I took a while back with the WilliamOptics ZS 66 SD, the difference is quite obvious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc1499_ha_20071219_sharp_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, NGC2024 Flame Nebula and B33 Horsehead Nebula<\/p>\n<p>OTA: NS8GPS @ f\/2 (Hyperstar v3)<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nRGB Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 12x300s, Astronomik 13nm Ha<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker (3x drizzle)<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image for the larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc2024_flame_b33_horsehead_ha_20080124.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc2024_flame_b33_horsehead_ha_20080124.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc2024_flame_b33_horsehead_ha_20080124_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another full moon imaging session, so the Hydrogen Alpha filter came out to play. Neither of these images had enough subs to make them smooth and noise free, but I was fighting my kit all night, so I`m glad I managed to get something to show for the evenings work. The use of flats is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}