IC1848 - The Soul Nebula
Date Taken: 10/25/2014, 10/26/2014
Scope: William Optics Megrez 90 with Televue 0.8x FR/FF, f/5.5, 496mm
Camera: QSI 583wsg with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy G-11 Gemini
Guiding: Lodestar, off-axis
Exposure: LRGB 200:95:90:90 all unbinned.
Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack 2; RGB combine and DDP with Maxim DL; Final processing with CS4.
To tone down the large number of foreground stars, I blended the red and luminance channels 50% each to make a synthetic luminance channel, which I then layered with the RGB.