Melotte 15 the centre of the Heart Nebula

Melotte 15 in the centre of the Heart Nebula (ic1805)

 

I'm fairly pleased with this one considering the OIII stack wasn't great, I used SCNR in Pixinsight to get rid of the green for speed in this process but I'll have another go using selective colour next time around.

 

Equipment used;

Celestron CGX mount

Lacerta 200/800 photo Newtonian telescope

QHY9s CCD camera

ZWOasi224mc guidescope

Baader Narrowband filters

 

Capture;

31 x 600 HA

51 x 600 OIII

32 x 600 SII

31 x Darks

Super Bias Pixinsight

Flats applied to Ha & SII

 

Software;

PHD2, SGP, Pixinsight & Photoshop

Done