One more time… this time with three filters: Hydrogen-alpha, Oxygen-III and Sulfur-II. The mapping to color channels is using the fairly conventional “Hubble palette”, that is, Sulfur-II mapped to red, Hydrogen-alpha to green and Oxygen-III to blue (ie in spectral order). In this case, however, I also used the H-alpha as a luminance channel.
The H-alpha data is of much better quality, so I end up with a much crisper image this way, but may be losing some parts of the nebula, particularly in the fainter parts.
The [SII] data was captured using 2×2 binning in order to see anything; absent that there’s really very little there.
Details:
Camera | QSI583wsg |
Optics | Takahashi FSQ-106ED |
H-alpha (Baader 7nm) | 15 x 300s |
Oxygen III (Baader 8.5nm) | 15 x 300s |
Sulfur-II (Astrodon 3nm) | 15 x 300s, binned 2×2 |