Saturday, 3 November 2012

NGC 1805 The Heart nebula

NGC 1805 The Heart nebula taken using a 4 inch refractor with PHD auto guiding software 
This is a comparison between RGB and Bi-colour imaging . The first image was taken using
RGB Astronomik colour filters with exposure times of 40 minutes for each filter:


The second image is a composition of Bi-colour information combined with RGB colour
information but only using narrow band information for luminance . The narrow band
exposure times was 60 minutes for H Alpha and 90 minutes using an Astronomik Olll filter: