IC 1396a SHO Here's my second deep sky

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IC 1396a SHO

Here's my second deep sky astrophotography image, this time of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula in glorious Hubble Palette. After I imaged M31 in monochrome a couple weeks ago, I wanted to up my game some. This is my first color image, skipping straight past LRGB and going for NB false-color. I can still see where improvements can be made, but overall, I'm pretty happy with the result. For my next target (which I haven't decided on yet), I want to start including a guide scope and camera as well as learn how to implement dithering into my images.

Gear:

Scope - Skywatcher Esprit 80ED Triplet-Apo

Camera - ZWO ASI585mm Pro

Mount - iOptronGEM28

Filters - Optolong SHO-3nm 2"

Capture:

Skies - Bortle 4-5

Capture software - Sharpcap Pro

Ha - 85x180s

Oiii - 118x180s

Sii - 80x180s

Total integration - 14.15 hrs

Processing:

Software - Pixinsight

WBPP

StarAllignment

BlurXterminator

NoiseXterminator

HistogramTransformation

StarXterminator

LRGBCombination

NarrowbandNormalization

SCNR

PixelMath
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