The Soul Nebula

This is the Soul Nebula. It was taken with the smallest/weakest telescope I have. I used Narrowband filters to get Hydrogen (Green), Sulfur (Red), and Oxygen (Blue). Green is suppressed here a little, or else it would be all green because of the overwhelming Hydrogen that’s floating around in our galaxy. It’s about 7500 lightyears away.


Hubble pallet colors of the Soul Nebula

This is the complete color image after the RGB is mapped to Sulfur II, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III respectively.


Starless image of the Soul Nebula.

Here’s the starless version of the same image above just to show the nebula better.


Following is each channel processed and shown here to see what they look like as separate channels.

This is the Hydrogen image. See it’s very full of Hydrogen.

Here is the Sulfur II image.

Here’s the Oxygen III of the Soul Nebula.

Below is the capture details of the photography of it.

Camera: ZWO 294MM Pro
Mount: EQ6R Pro
Telescope: Apertura 60mm
Field flattener: Apertura Flattener for 60mm and 72mm refractors
Guided with Astromania 60mm guide scope
Guide camera: ZWO Asi 120mm mini
Gain: 120
Offset: 30
Sensor Temperature: 0C
Ha Frames: 55 @300s
SII Frames: 53 @300s
OIII Frames: 60 @300s
Integration time : 14 hours
Flats: 50/filter
Dark Flats: 50/filter
Darks: 50/filter
Captured by NINA
Polar aligned by SharpCap
Stacked and processed by Pixinsight

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