North American Nebula

The North American Nebula in SHO:

3 hours Ha

1 hour O3

1 hour S2

 

Equipment:

 

Altair Astro 72EDF

QHY163m camera with Baader filters

Software:

Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor finished in PixIsight and Photoshop

Processing:

This was a challenge as the stars in my first Ha were terrible due to slop in my image train (an extension wasn't flush with the focuser) so I shot 30 mins of Ha and then stacked that with the S2 and O3 before using Starnet+ to extract the stars. I then used Starnet+ to remove the stars from the main filters before stacking and processing them. I finally re-added the good starfield using PixelMath.

Overall, it is still lacking but this is mainly due to lack of overall integration but I'm pleased with it for a total of 5 hours. Used the Hubble SHO pallette for integration

Done