M 1 The Crab Nebula RGB with Ha Enhancement

[Astrovetteman]

Here's an image of the Crab Nebula using data taken by Adam Block with the Schulman 32-inch RCOS Telescope at the Mt. Lemmon Skycenter in November and December of 2012, from Adam Block Studios Cosmic Canvas. I hope I did the data justice in the processing of this image.....the calibrated master bias, darks and flats were done with CCDStack and, of course, I use Pixinsight, so that was a bit of a problem to get the RGB and Ha images to calibrate.....but I finally figured out how to do it. There's 5h 45min of RGB @900s/sub and 11h of Ha @1800s/sub. It's GREAT quality data and once I got the frames to calibrate, it was a heck of a lot of fun to further process.
Anyway, hope ya like it!
Tom

Full Resolution Image: https://astrob.in/full/q77jfs/0/?real=

[messier 111]

fantastic processing , apod nomination , thx .

[pakarinen]

That's a good one!

[Makuser]

Hi Tom. Wow, this is a great processing job of the data. I love the colors and the filament details in your work. Thanks for sharing this with us Tom and is indeed worthy of an TSS APOD Award nomination.

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

nice