We’ve had pretty consistent cloudy weather for a while now, but had an opening last night to get the telescope back out. I captured 5hrs of Ha, SII, OIII data on the wizard nebula. After processing the data a bit, its obvious more SII and OIII data is needed. I decided to leave it pretty raw for now and come back to this once I have a chance to get more data.
I mapped the Ha data into the Red, Green, and Blue channels to give it some color.
imaging camera | ZWO ASI1600MM Pro |
guide camera | ZWO ASI290mm Mini |
mount | Skywatcher EQ6-R pro |
telescope | Explore Scientific ED102 APO |
exposure settings | exposure: 180s gain: 139 temp: -15c |
stacking | 42 Ha lights 45 SII lights 17 OIII lights 30 darks 30 flats 30 dark flats |
processing | PixInsight |

Ha data with DBE & stretch applied SII data OIII data