NGC 2264-The Christmas TreeCluster

[shadow turtle]

I finally decided to release the data on the cone nebula so others can have some fun during the cloudy nights.
The files are aligned and calibrated with Bias and flats. No DBE or Gradient correction has been executed on the images.

Total integration time is 11h.
6h or RGB data and 5h of Ha.

[serene wyvern]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Cant try rn cuz i gotta go to school

when i get home in abt 7 hours

wait for my processing pickles

[shadow turtle]

@brave flame , it's time to cook

[proven ivy]

looks really nice. what filters did you use? 🙂

[shadow turtle]

Optolong RGB and SV227 5nm Ha

[proven ivy]

@shadow turtle

[shadow turtle]

Holy shi!!!! That looks amazing

[urban vigil]

Time to Bring Back this Classic xD

[shadow turtle]

The emissionless looks so uncanny

[tropic vault]

ts so peak

[tropic vault]

my take on it

is the blue thing Oiii btw?

here it is rotated btw

ngl the stars couldve been better in mine

[tropic vault]

why are yalls not blue?

[serene wyvern]

very goood man!

[tropic vault]

why is it pink and all?

looks flat

the depth is gone 💔

[serene wyvern]

i like the color of this, if it was just red it wouldnt be good to me

[serene wyvern]

not really, i just tryied to bring out as much outer nebula as possible, so this hard edges on most images dont really exist in most of my processes

but the most important features like the cone neb do have depth and i made sure to sharper it a lil bit so it wouldn't look blurry

i also added a lot of ha like 2 instead of 1 as i would if i wanted more depth

i really like these lots of neb

[tropic vault]

ohh

i mean like pink is good too

btw

when ur doing GHS

do u use human weighted luminance or like independent channel values?

i found this one script imma apply it too lol

hopefully it makes things better

its kinda like blurXterminator

[tropic vault]

didnt changed much lol

[tropic vault]

running SCNR on this thing is fine tho right? cuz all the Ha and narrowband is in R and B

[urban vigil]

Scnr is never fine
If u use it, Theres No sence in having used the Green channel at all

If you want to reduce the Impact of Green, use color calibration or curve transformation tools

[tropic vault]

ohhh

[tropic vault]

this is the non SCNR version tho

the background was kinda green

bro why am i remembering things one by one?

i jst remember that i forgot to do hdr

wtf man

trust me its the last one guys 💔 🥀

[tropic vault]

can someone send me their star mask that is better than mine?

mine is so undersatturated

idk what to do bruh

[serene wyvern]

WDYM

[serene wyvern]

CosmicClarity sharpen?

[tropic vault]

yep

[tropic vault]

like there are many options right?

even weighted luminance, human weighted luminance, independent channel values and saturation stretch

[serene wyvern]

Man ngl never saw these

for ghs?

send me a print

[tropic vault]

yep

like this

i used human weighted luminance

[tropic vault]

to get this

and to preserve the blue

[serene wyvern]

idk man, just use the default

never changed this thingy

[tropic vault]

try to stretch with HWL

[tropic vault]

its lowk peak sometimes

[serene wyvern]

usually mine works just fine with default

send me a full ghs screenshot

[tropic vault]

ofc it does

it will work fine with every stretch

the results will be diff

[serene wyvern]

do u use this symetry point?

[tropic vault]

yep

[serene wyvern]

yeah ok then

i need to go bro

gg's

[tropic vault]

aight bro

bye

[shadow turtle]

I haven't shot OIII. The signal was simply too weak to have anything useful.

But I think that's a region of OIII and Hβ

[tropic vault]

ikr

that region has a lot of stars tho

i won't be surprised if it was actually Oiii and strong Hb

[hearty sigil]

thats how I stretch the stars lol

[rigid vector]

Thanks for sharing

[shadow turtle]

Ain't no way that's my data

[tropic vault]

WOOOO

aint no wayyyyy

ts so good

looks like hubble's pallete

how did u do it?

[shadow turtle]

@rotund haven

[rotund haven]

I think it is processed well but I am not a fan of the fake SHO color style images so I don't really dig it.

[white gulch]

quick process before i go sleep

[shadow turtle]

I just love the way you play with the colors

[proven ivy]

yeah this one is pretty 🔥

[rigid vector]

Thanks guys, @shadow turtle, your data are so good that the image practically made itself. trully enjoyable, thanks again for sharing.

[shadow turtle]

I'm glad that you are having fun with it. I wish I would have gotten more but the curse of this hobby is been hovering over my head ever since I shot it😭

[rigid vector]

I understand your frustration. It’s been many months since I’ve been able to shoot even a single sub. On the bright side, though, you should appreciate the quality of your sky. Your signal/noise ratio is a dream for me.

[shadow turtle]

I shoot from Borttle 4, and this data i shot it during new moon. Yes including Narrowband. Because of my skies i had to come up with very efficient ways to get data as fast as possible. sometimes is good data, other times is bad.

[supple tulip]

are you able to share ur workflow (at least with the colours side of things)?

[vale pond]

Gave it a shot also. Awesome data man.