Larger Image SH2-174
http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-s-pics/p13880-sh2-174-and-ifn.html
This was my only object for this New Moon, due to weather and other issues I had only two nights.
I chose this object because I had wanted to capture it for several years. It is a tough object, only 7 degrees from Polaris, which is a hard area to image.
The object is a Planetary Nebula, but quite faint and firmly embedded in thick IFN, which makes it even tougher.
Many images I have seen seem to emphasize the colors, to saturate them well beyond what they appear to be. So I wanted to try to portrait them in a more natural hue and saturation and to bring out the IFN around the object.
The LRGB data was about 16 hours total using the ATIK One 6.0 with Astrodon Gen2 filters.
I hope you like it and agree with my processing choice.
Floyd
http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-s-pics/p13880-sh2-174-and-ifn.html
This was my only object for this New Moon, due to weather and other issues I had only two nights.
I chose this object because I had wanted to capture it for several years. It is a tough object, only 7 degrees from Polaris, which is a hard area to image.
The object is a Planetary Nebula, but quite faint and firmly embedded in thick IFN, which makes it even tougher.
Many images I have seen seem to emphasize the colors, to saturate them well beyond what they appear to be. So I wanted to try to portrait them in a more natural hue and saturation and to bring out the IFN around the object.
The LRGB data was about 16 hours total using the ATIK One 6.0 with Astrodon Gen2 filters.
I hope you like it and agree with my processing choice.
Floyd
Attached Image:
[SIZE="Large"][/SIZE][COLOR="Blue"][/COLOR] Floyd Blue
Amateur Imager
