This image was published in the September 2004 edition of Astronomy Now.
I have since reprocessed it using Image Plus's Digital Development on
the Luminance, R, G and B images. The LRGB image was composed in Adobe
Photoshop and final noise reduction performed with Neat Image

Equipment Used
Image Duration
|
Duration (mins) |
Binning |
Luminance |
60 (6x10min) |
1x1 |
Red |
20 (2x10min) |
2x2 |
Green |
20 (2x10min) |
2x2 |
Blue |
40 (4x10min) |
2x2 |
LRGB composed in Adobe Photoshop 5.5 using
Robert
Gendler's Enhanced LRGB technique |