Pi Scorpii
Pi Scorpii is the bottom star of the head of Scorpius.
Pi Scorpii is surrounded with a Hydrogen Alpha nebula, while there are Blue Reflection nebulae throughout the image.
This obect was very difficult to image and process. It only reaches a maximum of 19.5 degrees from my observatory. I began shooting when it reached 15 degrees, and I could only manage approx 2 hours a night. This is image is 12 hrs of RGB and 2hrs of Lum. Taken in April and May with an FSQ106ED and Atik 11 Meg on a Mesu 200 mount.
With an object this low, I lost two nights where the entire sky except a thin portion of the Southern horizon with some cloud was enough to mean I had to dump the data.
There were gradients and colour balance issues also with the data. I have pushed this much further than I normally do, including extreme star work to prevent them dominating the image.
Pi Scorpii
Pi Scorpii is the bottom star of the head of Scorpius.
Pi Scorpii is surrounded with a Hydrogen Alpha nebula, while there are Blue Reflection nebulae throughout the image.
This obect was very difficult to image and process. It only reaches a maximum of 19.5 degrees from my observatory. I began shooting when it reached 15 degrees, and I could only manage approx 2 hours a night. This is image is 12 hrs of RGB and 2hrs of Lum. Taken in April and May with an FSQ106ED and Atik 11 Meg on a Mesu 200 mount.
With an object this low, I lost two nights where the entire sky except a thin portion of the Southern horizon with some cloud was enough to mean I had to dump the data.
There were gradients and colour balance issues also with the data. I have pushed this much further than I normally do, including extreme star work to prevent them dominating the image.