Rim Nebula / RCW 108, starless

Rim Nebula / RCW 108, starless
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Rim Nebula / RCW 108, starless

Following up from my earlier photo of RCW-108, using data from April and June from AUS-2-CMOS, this is separately processed the same data, to produce different colors (see also another version attached, also separately processed), and these have also gone through StarXTerminator and further smoothed for starless view.

While green is not usually a favourite color associated with SHO images, I think this one in particular looks quite good - it has enough warm/gold colors, some blue, and of course the beautiful green - giving it an overall Aurora look - hence posting it separately.

I've also attached a more purple version, which I think also looks good in its own way and colors/tonality.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
AUS-2-CMOS / Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
CMOS / QHY 600M (@BIN1)
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Australia
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
23 - 24 April & 11 - 20 June 2023
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
HSO
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
PixInsight, StarTools, Adobe Photoshop, Topaz Photo AI, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Credits
Lachezar Vladikov / Telescope Live
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