Horsehead and Flame nebulae with space dust

Horsehead & Flame Nebulae with apace dust

Taken from Urayarah Desert – KSA Bortle 3/4 Site

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Equipment:

Camera: ZWO ASI533 MC Pro

Telescope: Askar FMA230 F4.6

Mount: SA GTI

Control: ZWO ASIAIR

Filters: ZWO UV/IR Cut & Optolong L-Ultimate

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Details:

UV/IR Cut (RGB) : 82 subs each 5 minutes.

L-Ultimate (Ha) : 85 subs each 5 minutes

Total: 11h 40m

Calibrated with darks, flats, biases.

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Processing using Pixinsight:

• Star aligning both images.

• Spectrophotometric Color Calibration on RGB image.

• BlurXterminator, NoiseXterminator and StarXterminator on both, keeping RGB stars only.

• HaRGB Combination.

• Stretching.

• Curves and saturation boost.

• SetiAstro stars stretch.

• Using ImageBlend script to recombine the stars back.

• Reducing number of stars.

• Dark structure enhance script.

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Photoshop:

• Flame Nebula color adjusting.

• Curves to boost background dust brightness.