Monday, May 31, 2021

Elephant Trunk imaging... Night 2

Elephant Trunk imaging... Night 2

Plan:

Tonight was a surprise clearing sky, so my plan is to take as much Ha and Sulfur and see where we are. Might be able to at least attempt a HOO palette image.




Saturday, May 29, 2021

Elephant Trunk imaging... Night 1

Elephant Trunk imaging... Night 1

Plan:

Since the moon is down, I'm go heavy on the Oxygen and even on Ha, and Sulfur.

Seeing if I can catch a couple frames of the ISS at  9:32.... We'll see.


Update 3/30/2021:

3 Hours of unprocessed Oxygen:



Slowing down even more to Enjoy the ride!

 Slowing down even more to Enjoy the ride!

I've decided to stop going for quantity and enjoy the doing less objects but more ways. So for the summer months I'll likely only do a couple of nebulas.

Going to do them 3 ways:
  1. Hubble Palette: SHO (Sulfur, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen)
  2. LRGB (Luminance, Red, Green, Blue)
  3. HaGo (Coined by Dylan O'Donnell)
So I'm picking an easy one to started with, the Elephant Trunk Nebula. I shot this last year with my One Shot color camera.

Galactic Ha Experiment with Bodes and Cigar Galaxies with a One Shot Color camera

 I thought it might be a worthy experiment to see how the L-Ultimate filter could add to the Ha detail of galaxies using a OSC Camera. So th...