M20 taken by Hakos iDK

fernandoyang

Hi all!

I'm very happy with the result of M20 taken by Hakos iDK and I would like to share with you.

I think 300s is overexposed, am I right?

There is so much to learn and so much fun in astrophotography.

Fernando

Eduardo

Wawww, What a nice colors! congraturations.
Eduardo

fernandoyang

Eduardo Thanks alot!

Fernando

Eduardo

fernandoyang Maybe you could provide the details: times, filters, bining... I'm learning how to work in (L)RGB and that information would be of great help to me.
Thank you
Eduardo

fernandoyang

Eduardo

Hi Eduardo,

The exposure of this image was 15x300s for L, 3x300s for R, G and B, bin1.
I am new to astrophotography so maybe this isn't an ideal combination. Perhaps bin2 for RGB would be better.
Post-processed in PixInsight and I used Photoshop to eliminate some blooming star effects.
Next year I will integrate more sub frames to raise the snr. I want to bring out more faint nebula contours of it.

Fernando

lukas_demetz

Fernando, well done!
I like the faint nebula contours that can be seen in the lower part of M 20.

As for overesposure, not so sure about that. I would say that 300 seconds per frame are a good compromise. The Orion nebula would be an example where you'd need both short and longer exposures to not oversaturate the center stars.

I really like how the dark nebula is coming out in your image 😀 👍️

EDIT: As we are now also a partner of Astrobin, feel free to upload there, too 🙂

fernandoyang

lukas_demetz

Thanks Lukas!

Eduardo

fernandoyang Thank you!