IC 1805 – Heart Nebula

IC 1805 – Heart Nebula
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IC 1805 – Heart Nebula

Emission nebula with glowing gas and dark dust structures across a wide field
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
SPA-1-CCD
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
FLI PL16083
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
IC Astronomy Observatory, Spain
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
18 Oct 2019, 21:11 UTC
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
OIII, SII, Ha
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Siril
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Raw data provided by Telescope Live, processed by Casandra Martin
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Comments

The great thing about narrowband images is that there really isn't such a thing as wrong colours, so anyone can choose what they like. This is a nice image and the more important things like clarity, noise suppression and nice stars are all there.

Having said that I really hope you don't mind the following suggestion by way of a simple experimentation to try out.

The colours you've chosen made me think of the military award the "Purple Heart". Now Siril is not something I'm familiar with but perhaps using 'Remove Green Noise' in Siril it might make the image a bit more purplish looking. After that a bit of additional colour saturation might also help.

Apologies again for any unwelcome comments I'm making, but the image you posted just before this of the Prawn Nebula might also benefit from Green Noise Removal.

CS and thanks for sharing.

No worries! I am so new, I just started doing this recently and I can't even remember all the different settings and what they all do haha I do recall using the green noise removal though, maybe it's something I am doing with color calibration maybe because sometimes it comes out colorful and sometimes it is just green.