The Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus HaRGB

The Butterfly Nebula

The Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus
8/9/9 x 10 min each of RGB, 32x20min H-Alpha
Camera: Moravian G4 (16803) w Gen II Astrodon RGB and H-Alpha
Scope: Astrophysics AP155EDF Refractor w Focus Boss II
Mount: Paramount MX
Guiding SBIG ST402ME attached to a Borg 60mm guidescope
RGB and H-Alpha processing in PixInsight; Blend of H-Alpha w RGB and clean-up of column defect and save-for-web in PS CC

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Here is the pure RGB before H-Alpha was added:

The Butterfly Nebula in RGB

And here is the H-Alpha data:

The Butterfly Nebula in H-Alpha

Lucknow, Ontario
July 2022

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