IC 4604 and friends. The Ro Ophiuchi Nebula

IC 4604 and friends. The Ro Ophiuchi Nebula

 

This is officially my first RGB picture without using narrowband filters. Taken from a bortle 2 zone during the new moon in the little town of Tolmie in country Victoria, Australia. This is about 15h of data across 2 panels. My FOV does not allow me to capture the whole of the Rho Ophiuchi complex, so this is the best I could do with the time I had.

 

Funny enough I did not combine the luminance channel with this data as I found that it washed out of a lot of the details in the blue channel, detail that just was not really visible in the luminance channel, no matter how hard I have tried to pull it out, so this is a straight RGB picture

 

Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/ln5irs/B/

 

Imaging Telescopes:

William Optics Zenithstar 73

 

Imaging Camera:

ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro

 

Mount:

Skywatcher EQ-6r Pro

 

Software:

Nina, PHD2, Photoshop, Pixinsight, RC astro NoiseXterminator.

 

Frames:

 

 

Antlia Pro Blue: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1

Antlia Pro Green: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1

Antlia Pro Red: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1

 

Integration:

15h

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:

2.00

Done