NGC 346

[Jack Harvey]

NGC 356 is called by many the most interesting and beautiful object in the Small Magellanic Cloud.  Interestingly, there are not very many images of it on the web.  It has been done in narrow band by Hubble
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050118.html .  So here is a collection of 14 hours in Ha and RGB,  processed of course with PixInsight.  Thanks for looking.

http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/display.cfm?imgID=167

   
NGC 356 es llamado por muchos la más interesante y bello objeto en la Pequeña Nube de Magallanes. Curiosamente, no hay muchas imágenes de él en la web. Se ha hecho en banda estrecha por el Hubble
http://Http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050118.html. Así que aquí es una colección de 14 horas por Ha y RGB, procesado por supuesto con PixInsight. Gracias por mirar.

http://Http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/display.cfm?imgID=167

[Carlos Milovic]

Hi Jack

I edited your post to fix the link for the APOD page. The point at the end was causing problems.


You got an excelent image. 14 sounds a lot, but it is a f/11 telescope, right? I cannot imagine how difficult is to use it Congratulations.

Now, just to make a little critict. You may use the star's mask to perform a "star shaping" routine. Just apply a soft minimum filter (10%, 3x3 kernel, 7 iterations). You may adjust the mask to just affect the largest stars, wich looks a bit bloated, by using wavelets and histogram changes.


Keep the good job comming! Thanks for sharing.

[David Serrano]

I edited your post to fix the link for the APOD page. The point at the end was causing problems.

Oh, I just sent him a private note regarding this .

[Jack Harvey]

And thank you for the help with the star mask.