My weopons of choice are an SX M25C and an SX H9C, used through either a William FLT98n or an 80ED Skywatcher on a Meade14", or a G11 mount. The location is the Austerfield Study Centre.

Sunday, 6 September 2009

IC405- the Flaming Star nebula


I took this on the 18th of March 09, it was clear but cold and foggy so I didn't do much on this, and left the scene at 1am with fog all the way home. Nevertheless it processed it and this is the result, augmented by a little use of Photoshop's Selective colour layering. This allows you to add a "New Adjustment Layer" for "Selective Colour", which lets you enhance chosen colours (learned at a recent Workshop).I used it to add red, obviously. The blue, reflective nebula region didn't need help.
I used the 80ED and M25C without flattener so had to crop it a bit. The exposure was 13x600sec.

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