The Cone and Foxfur Nebulae in HaRGB

Cone & Foxfur in HaRGB


Cone Nebula (bottom) and Foxfur Nebula (upper right) in HaRGB
 
H-Alpha only image (starless)

Cone and Foxfur in H-Alpha

And the H-Alpha with stars (but this wasn't used for the composite image)

Cone_Foxfur_Ha_w_Stars

11/20/15 x 10 min each of RGB
9 x 20min of H-Alpha
Camera: Apogee U16M (16803) w Gen II Astrodon LRGB
Scope: Planewave 12.5" CDK
Mount: Paramount ME
Guiding SBIG ST402ME via Astrodon MMOAG
PixInsight processing:
RGB: - SPCC, BlurX, NoiseX, Curves, HT, masked saturation boost
H-Alpha - BlurX, NoiseX, StarX then Curves, HT and LHE on the starless image
H-Alpha + RGB combined in Photoshop

Clean-up and other tweaks then Save-for-web in PS CC

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Lucknow, Ontario
Feb 2024

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