Pelican Nebula Narrowband

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Pelican Nebula Narrowband

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The Pelican Nebula in Cygnus, IC 5070. 18.5 hours exposure acquired between 6/21 and 7/1 from my backyard in North Attleboro. Narrowband filters (H-alpha, S-II, and O-III wavelengths) mapped to RGB colors.

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Awesome! Boy, I hope those Spaniards send my download code for the trial Pixinsight soon! Been waiting a week already.
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Andy words fail me!!!
Beautiful image!
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Utterly amazing! You're really getting up there...30m subs? High Performance Guiding! :shock:

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PS:
Andy, what new hobby will you be trying next? Obviously you have perfected this one.
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I'm truly out of breath viewing this one Andy. Masterful!

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bluemax wrote:Boy, I hope those Spaniards send my download code for the trial Pixinsight soon! Been waiting a week already.
Frank, maybe you should check in with them again, I don't recall any delay getting the trial license back when I got it. Now that Spain is out of the World Cup, there should really be no reason for delay :roll:
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Bill Lee wrote: A couple of questions: When you say "mapped to RGB", is this the CFHT palette, Hubble palette, or something else? What was the bandpass of your narrowband filters?
Bill, I used Hubble palette (SII, Ha, OIII) => (R, G, B), but modified the colors in photoshop using Selective Color mostly following the technique described here.

I'm using Astrodon narrowband filters, 5nm Ha and SII, 3nm OIII.
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Wow Andy!

Beautiful image.

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Ooh! That is gloriously beautiful.

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