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The "Shell" Nebula (SH2-119)

Iren
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The "Shell" Nebula (SH2-119)NGC 7044
Resolution:
4907x3320 px
File size:
25030 KB

Technical information

Telescope/Lens
SharpStar 61EDPH III + 0.75x reducer
Camera
ToupTek ATR2600M
Mount
JUWEI 14
Guide Scope
Svbony sv 165 Mini 40mm
Guide Camera
ToupTek GPM662m
Accessories
StellaVita
Software
Dss, Pixinsight, Photoshop
Location
Смоленская область, Алексинский астродомик, Россия

Light pollution

Green, Bortle 4 zone

Date taken

Exposure

  • 50 × 300″ · ISO/Gain: 100 · Ha - scorpio astro 3nm
  • 50 × 300″ · ISO/Gain: 100 · OIII - scorpio astro 3nm
  • 30 × 300″ · ISO/Gain: 100 · SII - scorpio astro 3nm

Total exposure: 10 h 50 m

Comments

ankorot
Not bad! And it doesn't seem like there are any guiding issues.

PS It seems that the stars are greenish and colorless. Just my taste.
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IrenReply to ankorot
I didn't bother with the stars anymore. The weather just didn't allow it, and I wanted to start on another object anyway. I struggled with it for a long time. In total, about 20 hours were captured, but half of the frames simply ended up in the trash.
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ankorotReply to Iren
But stars don't require time — it's SCNR (reduce green in Siril) and stretching the star image (separating it from starless and boosting saturation).
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AnthReply to ankorot
This is not the best option, as the blue stars will turn white.
It is better to correct the HUE curve, if there is no possibility to shoot in RGB.
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ankorotReply to Anth
Doesn't SCNR remove green and leave blue stars?

Separately, before all this, you can do SPCC (photometric color calibration) to bring the color closer to the real one (with narrowband filter settings specified, of course).
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oeswwwReply to ankorot
SCNR works fine) yes, sometimes you get purple ones and then you need to invert the image and apply SCNR again
in this case, as far as I understood, RGB stars were not captured, so the ones that came out of SHO had to be desaturated and that's it.
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AnthReply to ankorot
Unfortunately, no. Try getting blue stars yourself after SCNR — it's not trivial to do. In blue color, a fairly significant component is green.
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oeswwwReply to Anth
Here are the blue stars even after two SCNR passes https://deepskyhosting.com/hUchhwe. Also, I didn't touch the colors separately.
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AnthReply to oeswww
In this example, you've captured it in a wide band, and there is signal in the B channel. Of course, if you remove the green, the blue will remain :)
But we're discussing a narrow band, where there is almost no blue channel. If you also remove the green signal, at best you'll get white or yellowish stars, which will be very difficult to turn into blue ones.
And in any case, SCNR is removal of useful signal; it's better to use it only in extreme cases.
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oeswwwReply to Anth
I gave a wide spectrum as an example to show, against that background (with the correct color), that SCNR is fine and the colors remain correct. It's just that cameras have quantum efficiency up to 100 percent, so green ends up stronger than the other two colors. That's a parasitic green tint. The signal isn't really useful and gets removed. It gets corrected)

- Star removal and white/yellowish synthesis: Remove stars from the finished SHO image, process the nebula, then bring the stars back from the pure channel (H) (they'll be white), slightly tinting them into a yellow-orange range via curves.
- Using masks in PixInsight: Create masks by color (e.g., Color Mask on magenta and green) to locally reduce the saturation of purple halos around stars, or use the trick of inverting the image (Invert -> SCNR -> Invert) to combat magenta.

Stars are ready
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AnthReply to oeswww
As you wish. I have no goal of convincing anyone otherwise.
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oeswwwReply to Anth
The main thing is that in the Newtonian rays, the spectrum contains green, and that is enough)
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dmcl
Turned out great. It would be nice to bring the stars to normal colors as well. And how was the palette assembled? This isn't classic SHO. Hydrogen and oxygen in their natural colors. And sulfur?
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IrenReply to dmcl
Thank you! This is the Foraxx palette.
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