I am purely an
OSC imager so this NB data is way out of my comfort zone but I gave it my best shot.
Processing was;
Crop and DBE on all H, S & O
Deconvolution on
Ha - I could not get decent result for O & S
EZ denoise on all three
Stretch all 3 with HT - not full stretch
Removed the stars in all three with starrnet 2
TGV denoise, LHE on each. I also did some unsharp mask on the S & O to compensate for the failed decon.
Combined using SHO-
AIP scrpt which allows for different blendings
Adding back the stars - I combined the three sets of stars but felt they were not great so I then also did a recombine using only the
Ha stars.
Rotated the image to my preferred orientation
I ended up with 4 versions
First a standard SHO in which I have left the green prominent - Hubble SHO is always quite green so its good enough for me.
This with all three channel stars
Then with only
Ha stars
But for me a green M42 is just too weird so I did a blend which is closer to the HOO that I'm used to but with the S blended in to G also
Again first with the full NB stars
Then with only
Ha stars
I tend to prefer the smaller cleaner
Ha only stars but that has lost a few important stars. I've also blown out the core a bit.
But overall I like the effect on the main gas clouds and also the fact that some of the background dust is showing up.
I could probably learn to like a green M42 but it will take some time
Thanks for sharing the data
@BABOafrica
Scope: Skywatcher Evostar 80ED (SW 0.85 FR/FF) on a SW NEQ6Pro
Guiding; SW Evoguide 50ED, ASI 120mm mini
Meade 8" LX200 GPS on wedge (Guided with a cheapo 50mm guidescope and a ZWO ASI 120mm mini)
Sharpstar 61EDPH II (with dedicated 0.8 reducer) with wiliam Optics 32mm uniguide
Camera: ASI2600MC pro. QHY 163M with ZWO 7nm NB filters, Canon EOS700D astro mod
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