Heart Nebula -SHO

In time for Valentine’s day 

Full res: [https://app.astrobin.com/i/zoc4oo](https://app.astrobin.com/i/zoc4oo) 

Questions welcome.

Total integration: 36h 10m 

Integration per filter:

* – R: 40m (20 × 120″)
* – G: 40m (20 × 120″)
* – B: 40m (20 × 120″)
* – Hα: 15h (90 × 600″)
* – SII: 8h 20m (50 × 600″)
* – OIII: 10h 50m (65 × 600″)

Equipment:

* – Telescope: Stellarvue SVX90T
* – Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
* – Mount: Sky-Watcher CQ350 Pro
* – Filters: Antlia Blue 2″, Antlia Green 2″, Antlia Red 2″, Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 2″, Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 2″
* – Accessories: Stellarvue SFFR.8-80T, ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ZWO EAF, ZWO EFW 7 x 2″, ZWO OAG-L
* – Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, ZWO ASIAIR

Processing – All done in PixInsight:

* Blinked Subs
* WBPP for calibration, registration
* GradientCorrection
* Channel Combination (RGB)
* NBColorMapper (SHO)
* ImageSolver (RGB and SHO)
* SPCC / SPFC  (RGB)
* Dynamic Crop
* BlurXterminator Linear (RGB and SHO)
* NoiseXterminator Linear (RGB and SHO)
* StarXterminator (RGB, SHO …save RGB stars to work later)
* HDRMT (SHO)
* MAS (RGB and SHO)
* Arcsine Stretch/Masks/Curves (SHO)
* Pixel Math to add RGB stars back
* Curves and crop