Late Horsehead

I may have mentioned that I've been processing a backlog of images. Here's one with data taken last January through February. The H-alpha and S-II data were shot from my light-polluted backyard (with no discernible effect from light-pollution - yeah!), and the blue data was shot from a friend's dark sky site. There's some field curvature towards the corner, but the reduced size of the image hides them somewhat I'll probably eventually round the stars out, but in the end I'll probably reshoot this next season with my FSQ.

Takahashi FS102 @ f/6 with Takahashi reducer
SBIG STL-6303 camera
Astrodon H-alpha, S-II, Blue filters
Takahashi EM200 mount

H-alpha: 6 x 30 minutes binned 1x1
S-II: 6 x 30 minutes binned 1x1
Blue: 12 x 5 minutes binned 1x1

1/4 sized image attached.
1/2-sized image at:
http://members.nuvox.net/~on.aunt/DSO/HHHaSIIBlue.jpg

Comments welcome.
Eric

Attached Image:

Fantastic shot.

Nice colour scheme with that choice of filters.

Its nice to see some variety with filter choice.

Greg.

Sweet shot Eric! The composition is great and the level of detail is astounding. Keep on processing and posting!
Cheers,
Tyler

Great shot Eric. The half sized image looks outstanding, good work.

Very sweeet!

-JWW:

Thanks for looking and the responses, everyone! One thing I enjoy about narrow-band imaging is the flexibility to pic a color palette. In the case of this one, I went for a more natural-looking color.

Eric